DIMAPUR, JANUARY 22 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today accused the Nagaland BJP President, Temjen Imna Along of speaking “half truths and lies” with regard to the Citizenship Amendment Act.
A press release from the NPCC communications department said that the “BJP politicized CAA by making religion as the basis for citizenship that has struck at the liberal and plural idea of India.”
It further stated that Nagaland BJP President “got his facts wrong on Nagaland being a 6th Schedule State.” “This only showed his ignorance and eagerness to indulge in talking without ascertaining facts which is unbecoming of a person holding high position in party as well as in government,” it claimed.
The NPCC termed the notion of Nagaland being safeguarded by ILP from CAA as “a false assurance.”
“CAA exemption based on ILP is just a ploy to divide the NE region and contain the fallout. The fact of the matter is, despite having ILP for several decades, the state government is unable to check the influx of illegal migrants and the fallout of CAA & NRC in neighbouring Assam and other parts of the country will surely open the floodgates for those granted citizenship through CAA to procure ILP and quietly settle down among the tribal population,” the Congress cautioned.
On Article 371A, the NPCC said that it places Nagaland as the most safeguarded state in the Indian Union after Article 370 was removed from the state of J&K.
“Article 371A cannot be BJP’s exclusive commitment to the people of Nagaland since the said Article was inserted in the Indian Constitution long before BJP was formed. The attempt of the BJP to twist the facts speaks about their desperation to appropriate the achievements of others in absence of their contribution to nation building,” it added.
It meanwhile lauded the anti-CAA protest by college students in Nagaland and said that this “augurs well for Nagaland that the younger generations are well informed and are not going to tolerate the complicity of those in power who are ready to sacrifice the interest of the people of Nagaland just to hold on to their chairs.”
