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Members of the Nagaland unit of the BJP seen here with Naga student leaders in Bangalore on May 4.[/caption]
Dimapur, May 5 (EMN): A delegation of the Nagaland state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Deputy Chief Minister Y Patton and accompanied by Health and Family Welfare Minister S Pangyu Phom is said to have reached Bengaluru on May 3. They will be stationed there till May 8 ‘in view of the Karnataka legislative assembly election,’ updates have informed.
A press release from the BJP media cell stated that the delegation met with the All India BJP General Secretary Muralidhar Rao at Bengaluru on May 4. They deliberated on ‘strategies to reach out to the north-eastern people in general and the Nagaland citizens in particular,’ according to the update.
There are reportedly about seven lakh of NE people in Bangalore including more than 8,000 people from Nagaland state.
On May 6, there would be a “Northeast Samavesha” at 4 pm at the Palace Ground, in the IT city where chief ministers from the Northeast states among others would be attending the event. National BJP President Amit Shah will be the main speaker, it was informed.
In this connection, the Nagaland unit of the BJP has appealed to all ‘well-wishers’ and citizens from Nagaland to participate in said event.
