Amit Shah to visit poll-bound Nagaland on Monday

Mon (Nagaland), Feb 19 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be kick-starting his campaign for the Nagaland assembly polls on Monday, with a public meeting here in the eastern part of the state, a BJP leader said.

“Amit Shah ji will be coming to Mon tomorrow and participate in the rally around 3.30 pm,” BJP candidate from the constituency, Cheong Konyak, said.

“We are expecting a crowd in excess of 10,000,” he said.

Konyak also said Shah is scheduled to meet leaders of civil society organisations on Tuesday, besides members of organisations demanding a separate Eastern Nagaland’.

The 60-member Nagaland Assembly will go to polls on February 27, while the counting of votes will be taken up on March 2.