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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demonstrated a dynastic streak successful naming candidates for the April 9 byelection to Assembly constituencies successful Nagaland and Tripura.
On Thursday (March 19, 2026), the BJP named Daochier I. Imchen arsenic its campaigner from the Koridang spot successful Nagaland and Jahar Chakraborti from the Dharmanagar constituency successful Tripura.
The deaths of the BJP representatives from these 2 constituencies, Imkong L. Imchen and Biswa Bandhu Sen, necessitated the by-elections to Koridang and Dharmanagar, respectively.
Daochier Imchen is the lad of Imkong Imchen, a five-time MLA, who passed distant successful November 2025. Mr. Chakraborti is the son-in-law of Rashik Goswami, among the archetypal BJP candidates to contention elections successful Tripura.
Mr. Goswami contested and mislaid the Dharmanagar spot successful the 2003 and 2008 elections, and truthful did Mr. Chakraborti successful 2013. Both were defeated by Sen, who switched implicit from Congress to the BJP via the Trinamool Congress earlier the 2018 polls and continued his winning streak successful 2023.
Sen, a retired teacher, died of a encephalon haemorrhage successful December 2025.
The 36-year-old Daochier Imchen, who holds an MA successful Political Science, joined the BJP successful 2023. “I convey the enactment enactment for reposing religion successful maine and look guardant to contesting the by-election with the enactment of our enactment workers,” helium said.
Along with Koridang and Dharmanagar, the BJP announced the names of Ritesh Ravi Naik, Veerabhadrayya Charantimath, and Srinivas T. Dasakriyappa for the byelections to the Ponda (Goa), Bagalkot (Karnataka), and Davanagere South (Karnataka) seats, respectively.
