A. Nyamnyei Konyak

Konyak is from Moka, Mon District, Nagaland. He is the son of late Anchao Konyak. He passed Class 8 in 1979.^[1]

Konyak won from Moka Assembly constituency representing National People's Party in the 2023 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election. He polled 8,857 votes and defeated his nearest rival and sitting MLA, E. E. Pangteang of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, by a margin of 556 votes.^[4] Earlier, he had lost to Pangteang in both the 2008 and 2003 Assembly elections.^[4] He became an MLA for the first time winning the 1982 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election representing Naga National Democratic Party. In 1982, he polled 2,724 votes and defeated his nearest rival, K. Kiko Konyak, an independent candidate, by 811 votes. He joined Indian National Congress and retained the seat in the 1987 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election. He regained the seat and won for a third time, also on a Congress ticket, in the 1993 election and won again in the 1998 election, but as an independent candidate. Thereafter, Pangteang of Naga People's Front won four consecutive terms including the 2018 poll^[5] before Konyak regained it in the 2023 Assembly election.^[4][6]