Dimapur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on February 14 expressed confidence that the party would form the next government in Nagaland as the S C Jamir government had provided a stable regime in the state for the past 10 years and cautioned the people not to rally behind communal forces like BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party).

Gandhi, who was addressing an election rally in Dimapur, alleged that BJP had created communal tension in the North Eastern states, where people had been living in harmony.

Nagaland goes to the hustings on February 26, along with the other NE states of Meghalaya and Tripura.

The Congress government in Nagaland provided a stable government bringing in peace and manifold changes to socio-economic life of the people, particularly in rural areas by introducing the democratic decentralisation process, she asserted.

Gandhi accompanied by Congress general secretary Mani Shankar Aiyer later left for Mokukchong, where she would address another election rally.

Rival Nagaland People's Front also organised a rally at Mokokchung, a Congress bastion.

PTI