Dimapur, March 2 -- The ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDDP) has announced former minister and doctor-turned-politician Dr Chumben Murry as the consensus candidate of the People's Democratic Alliance to contest in Nagaland's lone Lok Sabha seat in the upcoming general elections.

Tokheho Yepthomi of the NDPP is the incumbent Lok Sabha MP from the state.

The NDDP took the decision at its parliamentary board meeting at the party headquarters in Kohima on Friday, the party's media and communication committee said in a release on Saturday.

Chaired by NDPP Parliamentary Board convenor and chief minister Neiphiu Rio and co-chaired by NDPP president Chingwang Konyak, the meeting also deliberated on the forthcoming elections t...