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Kohima, Oct 21 (PTI) Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio was elected as the new president of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) on Tuesday, marking his formal return to the regional party he once led and later left to form the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP).

Rio’s election was announced during the NPF General Convention held on Tuesday, coinciding with the 63rd foundation day of the party — one of the oldest registered regional political parties in the Northeast.

The development follows the NPF’s September 6 appeal urging Rio to return to the party he had nurtured and left in 2017 to launch the NDPP, which has been in power since the 2018 state elections.

The NDPP deliberated on the proposal on September 12, and its general convention on October 18 f

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