All you need to know about the first woman MLA of Nagaland
Dimapur, March 2: Hekani Jakhalu, a candidate from the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) today emerged victorious after winning the Dimapur-III constituency. Interestingly, the state of Nagaland has never elected a woman MLA and Hekani has scripted history this time. She will now be the first woman MLA in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly.
She defeated Lok Janshakti Partysitting MLA Azheto Zhimomi by 1,536 votes.
Born in the year 1976, Hekani Jakhalu is an Indian lawyer and social entrepreneur from Nagaland. Hailing from Dimapur, she did her schooling at Bishop Cotton Girls’ School in Bengaluru and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi.
She studied for a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Delhi and took a Master of Laws at the University of San Francisco. After returning she began a career as a lawyer.
Further, the 47-year-old Jakhalu also set up the non-governmental organization YouthNet Nagaland to help the youth of Nagaland pursue business opportunities and in the year 2018, she was recognised with the Nari Shakti Puraskar award.
YouthNet aims to create more opportunities for the youth of Nagaland. As of 2018, YouthNet had 30 employees and claims to have helped 23,500 people. It aims to help entrepreneurs pursue their ideas and set up a “Made in Nagaland” centre in Kohima where artisans sell their goods.
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Mukul loses Tikrikilla constituency to NPP’s Jimmy D. Sangma
Shillong, March 2: A big loss for AITC leader Dr Mukul Sangma as he loses Tikrikilla constituency to NPP candidate Jimmy D. Sangma by a huge margin.
Mukul had earlier decided to fight for two seats in this election that include Tikrikilla and Songsak constituencies. However, he is leading from the Songsak constituency.
Meanwhile, NPP is seen to be emerging as the single largest party in Meghalaya as per Election Result Trends and BJP has managed to retain two seats as of now.
Meghalaya polls 2023: NPP leading in 23 seats
Shillong, March 2 (IANS) Conrad Sangma’s National People’s Party (NPP) is maintaining a lead in 23 seats as the counting of votes got underway on Thursday for the February 27 Meghalaya Assembly polls.
Compared to the two seats they won in the 2018 elections, the BJP is ahead in almost 10 seats, according to the early trends in counting.
While the Trinamool Congress is leading in 10 seats, the Congress party, which was the single largest party in Meghalaya in the last Assembly election, is trailing. The grand-old party is leading in only nine seats.
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The other regional party, the United Democratic Party (UDP), has been projected to win six seats.
Notably, UDP was a part of the NPP-led government in Meghalaya for the last five years, although the party has not forged an alliance with the NPP and fought the election separately.