Naga People's Front

Naga People's Front
Chairperson	Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu
Lok Sabha leader	Neiphiu Rio
Rajya Sabha leader	H. Khekiho Zhimomi
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Kohima, Nagaland
Ideology	Regionalism
ECI Status	State Party
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	1 / 545
Seats in Rajya Sabha	1 / 245
Website
nagapeoplesfront.org
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The Naga People's Front (NPF) is a regional political party in Nagaland and Manipur, India. It headed the Nagaland government with the Bharatiya Janata Party, as part of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland since 2003. Dr. Shürhozelie is the president of the party. The main leader of the NPF, Neiphiu Rio, is the Lok Sabha member from the lone constituency of Nagaland. On March 22, 2004 the NPF absorbed the Nagaland Democratic Party.

In Nagaland, both the ruling Naga People's Front and the opposition party, the UPA, supported Pranab Mukherjee during the 2012 presidential election. Mukherjee held a meeting with Neiphiu Rio and DAN legislators in Dimapur where NPF leaders formally endorsed their support. Mukherjee won the election on July 19, 2012. When the Nagaland Post asked the Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio, if the support extended to the presidential candidate was also “issue based” as the NPF-led DAN was supporting the UPA government at the centre on the same line, the Chief Minister said that his party was supporting the UPA and hence it was the right perspective that the DAN legislators also support UPA’s presidential nominee. NPF's main opposition in the legislative assembly is the Indian National Congress party.

Although the Naga People's Front has local arrangements with the NDA it previously had not support either the NDA or the UPA in the central government where it has 1 MP in the Lok Sabha.

For the 2014 General Election, the North-East Regional Political Front (NERPF), a consortium of 10 regional parties, including the Naga People's Front announced their support for the NDA.

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