Election to the 60-member Nagaland assembly began at 7 am amid tight security as more than half of 2,156 polling stations have been declared critical.
Nagaland Chief Electoral Officer Abhijit Sinha said of the 2,156 polling stations in Nagaland, 1,100 have been declared critical, 530 vulnerable and 526 normal.
All the polling stations would be manned by the CAPF personnel and the state police would also be assisting them, he added.
There are 195 candidates in the fray in Nagaland
Voting will continue till 4 pm, except in some polling stations of the interior districts where it will end at 3 pm
With Nationalist Democratic People's Party(NDPP) chief Neiphiu Rio winning unopposed the Northern Angami-II seat, polling is being held in 59 seats.
In Nagaland, BJP's hope hinges on its alliance partner NDPP (the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party) of Neiphiu Rio, which is contesting from 40 seats. The saffron party has fielded candidates from the remaining 20 seats.
The Congress, which has given three chief ministers to Nagaland since the state's inception in 1963, is contesting from only 18 seats, two less than the BJP, an emerging entity in the north-east.
In Nagaland, a total of 11,91,513 voters — 6,01,707 (50.50 per cent) men and 5,89,806 (49.50 per cent) women — will exercise their franchise on Tuesday. There are also 5,925 service voters.
The results of the polls in Nagaland will be declared along with those of Tripura and Meghalaya on March 03,2018
Of the three states where elections are taking place, this is the only one which has a Congress government.
Other two, Tripura which went to polls on 18th February has a Left Front government and Nagaland is ruled by Naga People’s Front.
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