New Delhi, March 4: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form a coalition government in three northeastern states — Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. Although the poll results of all these three states are crucial for the BJP, the victory in Nagaland is somehow more important in many ways.

For the second consecutive time, the BJP will form the government with the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) in Nagaland. The saffron party had won 12 seats in 2018, and has won 12 out of the 20 seats it contested this time, while the NDPP has won 25 out of the 40 seats it contested.  Together, both the parties won 37 seats in the recently held Assembly elections as compared to the 30 seats they secured in 2018.  Nagaland BJP in-charge Nalin Kohli, in a conversation with IANS, while referring to the alliance’s victory said that it is a win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Look East policy and the people of Nagaland had voted for peace, development and a positive agenda in the state.