The killing of Matey has come ahead of the 2024 Assembly and the general elections, which will be held simultaneously in the frontier state. The former Congress MLA was also a BJP ticket aspirant from the Khonsa West Assembly seat. He had joined BJP in 2015
Yumsen Matey, a former Congress MLA, was in Tirap district to attend a social event last week when he was reportedly taken towards a nearby forest on some pretext and shot dead.