 He also asked the then Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio to convene a special session of the state assembly to ban the movie in Nagaland or issue an official notification in this regard.In 2008, while a Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland, Konyak was expelled from his party, Nagaland People's Front, for six years as he defied party directives and voted for the nuclear deal tabled in Parliament by the United Progressive Alliance.The NPF was in political alliance with the BJP then at the state government.