DIMAPUR, MAY 17 (MExN): President of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), K Therie today stated that the 2018 assembly election in the state is a challenge to every person in Nagaland.
In a press note, he stated: “It is either we change or perish together like fools under the corrupt governance. They have already looted public funds for the last 15 years. Now they are divided and are struggling for power to further corrupt. We cannot expect anything more than bribery and looting of public development funds from power mongers. Whatever they may say, their deeds in 15 years’ rule have proven that they are shameless corrupt persons.”
Therie informed that he recently travelled to a few districts covering Wokha, Zunheboto, Mokokchung, Longleng and Mon with Dr. K. Jayakumar, Secretary, AICC I/c of NE States. “The roads which used to take one hour in the past now need 3 hours. Roads between Zunheboto and Mokockchung and roads between Mon and Tizit are terrible. There is no road worth calling a road,” he lamented.
The present government, he stated, is responsible for “changing Nagas from honesty to dishonesty.”
“They have changed life style from hardworking system to commission agent and extortion. From unknown sources of income, people have acquired land and high buildings are rising. All these have happened during just 15 years of NPF-BJP Government,” he alleged.
He went on to state that “corruption began from the top politicians to bureaucrats down to the lowest grades, and VCCs and VDBs are forced to sign blank cheques.”
The NPCC President said that people in the villages have lost hope of development and that the government would deliver welfare schemes. “They also have lost hope, that after election, they will ever get opportunity to meet the elected representatives, not to speak of taking care of their welfare.”
He pointed out that “MGNREGA funds are not heard of anymore except for asking them to sign blank cheques. Monthly Civil supplies such as rice, wheat, sugar and Kerosene oil don't reach the villages. School buildings don't have doors and windows. Hospitals and dispensaries are without employees. There is neither medicine in the dispensaries and hospitals nor the machineries to diagnose. School teachers are short in almost all Village schools. Backdoor appointments, CAG report and failure to solve the political problem are all forgotten.”
The people don't complain any more, he lamented and stated that people just don’t believe that the government can ever deliver or solve the problems.
Stating that there is “complete political polarisation in the state,” the NPCC President said that the people have also lost hope in NPF and BJP “seeing the divided house of NPF-BJP Govt.” “They will be gunning for each other with their amassed wealth. The vote bank will be divided into three sections,” he claimed.
Therie further stated that the challenges facing the people in this coming election are to stop deep rooted corruption, to stop RSS-BJP from persecuting the Christian faith and to provide clean and God-fearing government and governance. “Even non-Christians are telling our society that the choice is of conscience over money-power,” he claimed.
