Role Indian Politician Name T. Zeliang | Spouse(s) Kevizenuo Rangkau Constituency Peren | |
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Political party Nagaland People's Front | ||
Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang speaks to RSTV about poll results
T. R. Zeliang (born 21 February 1952) is an Indian politician who has served as Chief Minister of Nagaland, a state in northeast India, since July 2017; he previously served as Chief Minister from May 2014 to February 2017. A leader of the Nagaland People's Front, Zeliang took over the reins from Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio following the latter's shift to national-level politics in Delhi. Zeliang previously served as a Member of Parliament, representing Nagaland in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Contents
- Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang speaks to RSTV about poll results
- Nagaland CM T R Zeliang calls on PM Modi
- Early life and education
- Political career
- Chief Minister of Nagaland
- References
Nagaland CM T. R. Zeliang calls on PM Modi
Early life and education
T. R. Zeliang was born to Rangleu Zeliang in the Mbaupungwa village of Peren district in 1952. A Zeliang Naga, T. R. Zeliang matriculated from Don Bosco High School in Dibrugarh, Assam and holds a B.A. degree from Arts College, a case for giving false information on election affidavit is currently heard in the courts of The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Peren, after it was transferred on April 25 last, from the Kohima Bench of the Gauhati High Court. It is being alleged While in college he served as the president of Zeliangrong Students Union, general secretary of Zeliangrong Action Committee and Zeliangrong Youth Organisation and became the president of the Peren District Youth Congress of the Indian National Congress.
Political career
Zeliang contested the Nagaland Assembly elections of 1982 and 1987 unsuccessfully from Tening constituency. He then won from Tening four times in a row beginning with the elections of 1989 as a candidate of the Naga People's Council and subsequently in 1993, 1998 and 2003 as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. He served as Minister of State for Information and Tourism during 1989–90 and as Minister of State for Relief & Rehabilitation from 1994 to 1998. During 1998 – 2003, he was the Minister for Environment and Forests and Geology and Mining under S C Jamir. In 2003, Zeliang and six Congress MLAs formed the Nagaland Congress after defecting from the Indian National Congress only to merge with the Neiphiu Rio led Naga People's Front. From 2004 to 2008, he was a Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha from Nagaland. Returning to state politics in 2008, he was appointed Minister for Planning, Animal Husbandry and Parliamentary Affairs under Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio. He won the assembly elections of 2008 and 2013 from Peren.
Chief Minister of Nagaland
Zeliang, who had been Minister for Planning and Coordination in the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland III ministry, succeeded Neiphiu Rio as Chief Minister following Rio's election to the Lok Sabha in the Indian general elections of 2014.