Kohima, Sept. 6: The president of the Nagaland unit of the BJP is unlikely to change when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visits the state on October 28.

The Prime Minister’s date for the visit, however, is “tentative”.

The party unit has named its president Mozamo Ngullie as the consensus candidate for another tenure in the post.

The elections for the president and other office-bearers are slated for the first week of October, state co-ordinator Avinash Kohli said. Party polls for district presidents will be held in the following weeks. The state executive meeting of the party will be held on September 15.

The party in-charge for Northeast, V. Satish, will meet the chief minister, the seven BJP legislators in the state and the office-bearers in separate meetings, Kohli said.

However, according to sources, the party’s constitution may not allow Ngullie’s appointment to the post as he has not completed two years as an organising secretary. However, state unit general secretary Ato Yepthomi argued that “when we are doing things the consensus way, it should not matter”. He said the Prime Minister will inaugurate some projects.

Two jawans injured

A constable and a driver of the Seventh Assam Police Battalion were injured in a powerful bomb blast in Bongaigaon district on Saturday morning, reports our Kokrajhar correspondent.

Bongaigaon police suspect that the blast was triggered by militants of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB).

The bomb was planted near Kablia bridge under Gorubhasa police outpost. It hit the police van, which was returning to Sidli from Runikhata, at 10 am.

The injured have been identified as driver Sileswar Baruah and constable Goutam Baruah. They have been admitted to the Bongaigaon civil hospital.

Rebels shot dead: Three militants were shot dead, an AK-66 rifle was recovered and two militants of the Bru National Liberation Front of Tripura were arrested today in separate incidents by security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Tripura, reports our special correspondent from Agartala.