Dimapur, March 20 (MExN): The coming Lok Sabha election has presented a crucial choice before the people of Nagaland to “either accept or reject Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and his party (NPF) joining hands with communal BJP to chart his escape route from the state after 11 years of rampant misrule,” stated NPCC in a press release today. NPCC added that “people are also at liberty to question the forays of the NPF into the political landscape of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh with crores of money meant for development of the state.”
“The ongoing agitation by the SSA teachers who are without salary for the past four months, the ultimatum served by various service/ employees associations, the unavailability of school text books for govt schools, downgrading of 129 GHS, deplorable conditions of roads across the state and non accessibility to basic amenities like regular power supply, clean drinking water, medical and health care facilities by majority of the populace does not seem to even prick the conscience of Chief Minister Rio and the NPF govt who have become immune to the cries of the people and are more concerned with their political adventures in neighbouring states,” the NPCC stated.
The NPCC further cautioned that despite assurances from the central BJP leaders “who are supposed to have even adopted a resolution to solve the Naga political issue as brought by Rio, the people of Nagaland must understand that the BJPs approach to bring solution to the vexed Naga political issue would be to simply scrap Article 371 (A) and put the state at par with other states without any special dispensation presently enjoyed under the said article.” This, the NPCC said, can be gauged from the fact that the BJP leaders have all along been forthright in raking up debate on Article 370 enjoyed by J&K state, committing to review once it assumes power with clear majority. Nagaland can expect nothing better when the same yardstick becomes applicable, after J&K state loses the special status under Article 370, it added.
Condemns Dr Shurhozelie’s statement
Meanwhile, the NPCC vehemently condemned the statement of NPF President Dr Shurhozelie, that some senior Nagaland congress leaders have extended their support to Rio. The NPCC dared Dr Shurhozelie to publicly name the congress leaders if “he has the moral courage or refrain from uttering cheap and malicious propaganda which is unbecoming for a person of his stature.”
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