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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Rahul Karmakar

Walkovers in Arunachal Pradesh assembly seats give NDA psychological edge in Northeast

The uncontested victory for 10 BJP candidates in Arunachal Pradesh appears to have given a psychological edge to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) across the northeast ahead of the first phase of polling on April 19.

Apart from 16 Lok Sabha constituencies in eight States, elections will be held for the remaining 50 Assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh and 32 Assembly seats in Sikkim on April 19.

The northeast has a total of 25 seats, 14 of them in Assam. Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Tripura have two seats each while Nagaland, Mizoram, and Sikkim have one seat each.

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