Kohima, Oct 20 (PTI) Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Monday said that the scheduled merger of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) with the Naga People's Front (NPF) is not for personal gains but for the sake of the Naga people.

Addressing the Traditional Central Executive Council (CEC) meeting on the eve of the NPF general convention, Rio called the upcoming merger a "prayer answered by divine intervention", saying it marks a new chapter of unity in the state's political journey.

Rio was unanimously elected as the new leader of NPF legislature party and is also the president-elect of the party.

His election as the leader of both the NPF and its legislature party took place on Saturday following the sixth general convention of NDPP, which passed a resolution to ful

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