Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Nagaland has inducted its first ever woman MLA as cabinet minister.
Salhoutuonuo Kruse of NDPP from 8 Western Angami scripted another history by becoming the first ever woman minister of Nagaland.
Kruse, speaking to NTN after the swearing in ceremony expressed her happiness for inducting her in the cabinet berth.
In her message to all the women of Nagaland, she said, “I will do what I can and I encourage all the women to be brave, sincere and hardworking so that we can work together and gain whatever we have not gained yet.”
Meanwhile, reacting to Kruse, who also happens to be one among the two women from Nagaland to have been elected as MLAs for the first time ever in Nagaland’s election history, Nagaland BJP president Temjen Imna Along congratulated all the women of Nagaland on the historic day today as the state got its first ever woman minister and gave a thumbs up to women empowerment in the state and the region.
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Kruse and Hekani Jakhalu, also from NDPP, were the two women candidates to have won the Nagaland elections this time.
Kruse and Jakhalu had created history by becoming the first-ever women to have won Nagaland Assembly polls and get elected as MLAS.
Nagaland had 13 Assembly polls but had never elected a single woman as MLA despite the fact that many women candidates were in the fray.
BJP’s Kahuli Sema and Congress’s Rosy Thomson were the other two candidates, but they did not win.
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Kruse won the Western Angami seat by defeating Independent candidate Keneizhakho Nakhro by 7 votes.
Kruse has served as president and advisor of the Angami Women Organisation. Her late husband Kevisekho Kruse had been an NDPP candidate from the 8 Western Agami seat in 2018. He, however, had lost to the NPF’s Keneizakho Nakhro.
Kruse is also a business woman and a well-known hotelier of Nagaland.
