For 1st phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024, Voting concluded on Friday with voters from 102 constituencies in the country. According to the current estimate, the turnout of voters was recorded at 63.89%, which elections officials said will go up when reports from all polling stations are obtained.
Polling employees in six eastern districts of Nagaland waited for 9 hours in booths throughout Lok Sabha elections on Friday, but not one of the 4 lakh voters of the area grew to become up following a shutdown name given by the employer to press for its demand for ‘Frontier Nagaland Territory’ (FNT).
What the Polling Stations analyze
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Friday affirmed that the state government does not have any hassle with the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation’s (ENPO) name for for FNT because it has already endorsed independent powers for the area. The ENPO is the apex body of the 7 tribal corporations of the eastern area.
Officials stated there is no movement of people or vehicles on main streets in eastern Nagaland besides those of the district administrations and different emergency services. Additional Chief Electoral Officer of Nagaland Awa Loring stated polling employees have been present between 7 am and 4 pm in the 738 polling stations in the region, which accommodates 20 meeting constituencies.
Voter turnout in the first phase
According to voter turnout records, Tripura recorded the best turnout at around 80.17 %, followed by West Bengal at 77.57 %. Sikkim recorded around 69.47 per voter turnout. Nagaland, which voted for its best Lok Sabha seat in the first section, recorded a 56.91 % voter turnout on Friday.
No votes from six districts
This is in spite of the truth that 6 districts in the state had no longer recorded even a single vote. Among the over 4 lakh eligible electorate in six Eastern Nagaland districts — Mon, Tuensang, Longleng, Kiphire, Shamator, and Noklak not even one of them showed as much as a vote on Friday.
Even the 20 MLAs representing the Eastern Nagaland region additionally did not work out their franchise, responding to the ‘abstain from vote casting’ name given by the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO), the apex body of 7 tribes from the six districts.
Why residents decide to give no vote
Election officials at 738 polling stations in those six districts waited for over 9 hours on Friday but noticed no voters due to a name to abstain from the electoral way given through the Naga establishments pressing for their name for a separate ‘Frontier Nagaland Territory’.
Conclusion
The ENPO has been campaigning for a ‘Frontier Nagaland Territory’ or separate country name for the 7 backward tribes — Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Phom, Tikhir, Sangtam, and Yimkhiung — stay in the six Eastern Nagaland districts. As per the reason determined by the ENPO, Nagaland’s Chief Electoral Officer R. Vyasan has indicated taking suitable movement underneath the Indian Penal Code for the ‘abstention’ name given by the tribal body.
