As BJP stampedes in Arunachal leading in 47/60 seats as CM Khandu extends reign. In Sikkim, the ruling SKM comfortably retains power ahead in 31/32 constituencies, and the opposition SDF loses ground.
But amid these state battles, have India's mainstream parties given the Northeast a short shrift in national Lok Sabha polls?
In our special broadcast, we discuss this burning issue with Mr. Amit Kumar of EastMojo and veteran journalist Gautam Mukherjee - Why is the Northeast often ignored and undermined when it comes to fierce Lok Sabha electoral contests and inclusive participation?
Tune in for comprehensive results coverage and this critical debate on the Seven Sisters' role in India's biggest democratic exercise.
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But amid these state battles, have India's mainstream parties given the Northeast a short shrift in national Lok Sabha polls?
In our special broadcast, we discuss this burning issue with Mr. Amit Kumar of EastMojo and veteran journalist Gautam Mukherjee - Why is the Northeast often ignored and undermined when it comes to fierce Lok Sabha electoral contests and inclusive participation?
Tune in for comprehensive results coverage and this critical debate on the Seven Sisters' role in India's biggest democratic exercise.
#BJP #Congress #SikkimResults #ArunachalPradeshResults #PemaKhandu #Politics #ElectionResultsLive #Oneindia #Oneindianews
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00:00 When we talk about North East and when we talk about you know the overall looks of high election pictures,
00:08 North East does play an important role but do you believe that North East gets its share or say when it comes to this hotly contested North centric constituencies
00:23 or the focus of a particular party or the governments down South, do you believe that somehow the North East gets the fair say or does it get left out when it comes to priorities?
00:36 It's very, see you worded the question like a true journalist, when you put it in these two categories fair share or not,
00:44 if I say it does not get a fair share I would probably be lying but let me explain, so I will just explain what I have learnt,
00:51 I am also an outsider right so I have come to work here, see within North East I would like to say that there is within the North East there is Assam and then there is the rest.
01:02 Assam is not a small state by any stretch of imagination, it has over 32, 3.2 crore people, it's not a small, to put that in context the North East population
01:16 as of 2011 census because clearly we have not had a census since, we have about 4.5 crore people out of which 3.4 crore people are in Assam,
01:26 so other states combined is only one third of Assam in terms of population, yeah it's 1 crore, I will give, that's what I am saying, Sikkim is 6 lakh,
01:35 remarkable numbers, population little more than 6 lakh, Sikkim is little more than 6 lakh, Arunachal, I know these numbers by heart because this is what we do,
01:43 Mizoram is 11 lakh, Tripura is 36 lakh, Meghalaya, Manipur and Mizoram are around 30 lakh, Nagaland is slightly lesser, sorry,
01:53 Mizoram, Manipur and Meghalaya are around 30 lakh, so when you look at it in that sense, see the problem is you give an entire state 1 MP,
02:02 it's not the fact that you are giving the entire state 1 MP but you are also telling the people that no matter what your differences are amongst each other,
02:12 you will get one leader, go figure it out, now Nagaland, I don't know how closely you have been following Nagaland but there has been a huge movement for a separate frontier Nagaland territory,
02:22 FNT, it's the eastern Nagaland, so 6 districts of Nagaland have been buying for a separate district, for a separate state, separate autonomous council, something more than what exists right now,
02:34 the MP is most likely to be based either in Dimapur or Kohima, Kohima to give you in context, Kohima district is say for example if it's here, then Mon district would be somewhere 300 km away,
02:50 300 km of travelling through Nagaland territory, which in monsoons can be 3 days, if there are landslides, now how is that MP supposed to represent such further regions?
03:02 In Mizoram, now you were talking about Mizoram right, so in Mizoram for example ZPM came to power right, and this is the first time a non MNF, non congress government has come to power in Mizoram,
03:12 absolutely, yes absolutely, very reasonable, but Pankaj, but Pankaj despite that Mizoram recorded the lowest turn out amongst north east states in the member of parliament elections, why?
03:24 Because people don't connect to the candidates, MP is there, and again people forget how huge Mizoram is, it's 90% hilly, 10% flats, but from Kolhasa to the northern most district to something like Saiha in the southern most region,
03:44 it's almost 600 km or more, and it's only 11 lakh people, so Mizoram is not as populated as we think in terms of population numbers right, now out of 11 lakh people, almost 35 to 40% is based in AMC also known as Aizawl Municipal Corporation,
04:01 which means for the rest of the state it's only 6-7 lakh people, that's not a lot, so what happens is the area is huge, you have one person who is supposed to represent you in 5 years,
04:12 and when that is the case what are they going to bring up anyways, also look at what happened to Manipur, everybody who talks about double engine government,
04:22 you had centre BJP, you had state government BJP, not only that, out of the 60 MLAs, 55 are with the government, 55 of the 60 MLAs in Manipur are with BJP,
04:34 you don't need more than that, and to date Congress, and to leave alone putting the state to peace, to date BJP has not managed to have one meeting where METI and KUKI MLAs have sat together,
04:48 if you can't bring MLAs of your own party together in one year, not even in Manipur, not even in Delhi, that's what, ok fine you can't do it in Manipur, I get it, Delhi?
05:00 You can't get all of them, at least get somebody to talk about, see this is what I am saying, so when you talk about numbers,
05:08 you know, the more the number, the more the responsibility, the more the share, you hear that right, so responsibility, share, nobody takes responsibility and nobody gives share,