The Bharatiya Janata Party has named a woman for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Nagaland.
S. Phangnon Konyak is set to be the second woman to represent the State in Parliament after Rano M. Shaiza was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977.
But what has made her nomination significant is the Naga community she belongs to — Konyak. Fourteen of her tribesmen were killed in a botched ambush by an elite unit of the Army and subsequent violence on December 4 and 5, 2021.
