Kiyanilie Peseyie

Kiyanilie Peseyie
Veteran Politician from Nagaland
Speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly
In office 14 March 2003 – 15 March 2013
Preceded by	Z. Lohe
Succeeded by	Chotisüh Sazo
Member of Nagaland Legislative Assembly
In office 2003–2017
Preceded by	Asu Keyho
Succeeded by	Keneizhakho Nakhro
Constituency	Western Angami
Personal details
Born	Kiyanilie Peseyie (1941-08-01)1 August 1941 Nagaland
Died	27 September 2017(2017-09-27) (aged 76) Dimapur, Nagaland, India
Political party	Naga People's Front

Kiyanilie Peseyie (1 August 1941 – 27 September 2017) was an Indian politician from Nagaland, India who served as the speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

Government Service[edit]

Between 1971 and 2002 he was in government service. He took voluntary retirement as the Additional Commissioner of Excise, Nagaland and entered politics.

Political career[edit]

In 2003 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland, as the Naga People's Front candidate in the constituency Western Angami (ST).^[1] After the election, he was elected as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.^[2] He retained his constituency in the 2008 election, and was then elected Speaker for a second term.^[3] In 2013 he was made the Minister for Public Health Engineering after retaining his constituency for a third time however in a minor reshuffle he was made the minister for Social Security & Welfare Department and Parliamentary Affairs. He was appointed as the Chief Whip of the Naga People’s Front Legislature. He was the first from North East India to be appointed as an executive member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

Death[edit]

He died on 27 September 2017 around 2.30 A.M. at Zion Hospital Dimapur after a brief illness.^[4] On 28 September, he was laid to rest in Jotsoma village with full state honors.^[5]

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