Kohima, August 27 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has finalised the action strategies for the 2018 State assembly election. The main theme of the party will be to provide clean governance with zero tolerance towards corruption, according to a press release issued by NPCC Media Cell today.
To finalise strategies for the election, NPCC delegates recently had series of meetings in Delhi.
On August 18, the delegates met the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and had discussion on the action plan prepared by NPCC. They also met Motilal Vora (AICC Treasurer), Dr CP Joshi (General Secretary AICC I/c NE states), and Dr K Jayakumar (Secretary I/c Nagaland) to fine tune the action plan that incorporated the suggestions and directives of the Congress President, stated the press release.
Further on August 21, the NPCC delegates comprising President K Therie, Vice President V Lasuh, General Secretary Jonathan Ao, and Chairman Media Cell Capt GK Zhimomi along with Dr CP Joshi and Dr K Jayakumar had an hour long meeting with the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, in which the action strategies for the 2018 assembly election were finalised.
The party in the release reaffirmed its commitment to defend freedom of faith, culture, customs, social practices and our land. “We will not allow Nagaland to be destroyed by communal forces in connivance with regional forces as our ancestors were proud warriors and have paid with their life and blood to protect them. We do respect people of other faiths and beliefs so also, we expect them to respect our faith, beliefs and way of life. We will go on an extensive campaign to call upon the voters of the state to vote out the BJP-RSS and their comfort political parties,” the party asserted.
The NPCC Media Cell informed that Congress will set up all 60 candidates in the election. “We are for God fearing candidates who can give clean governance and rescue our people from the huge mess perpetrated by regional parties who are in cahoots with communal forces.”
Towards this end, NPCC will hold a state level convention in later part of October 2017, where Rahul Gandhi has agreed to address the gathering of congress workers and that will kick start the election campaign. Former Finance Minister and Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram will also attend the event, it informed.
NPCC reiterated that Nagaland and its people are equal partners in the Union of India as provided in the Constitution and “therefore shall not allow the BJP-RSS to hold our people and the state to ransom by taking advantage of regional parties who have no principles or ideology to withstand the onslaught of their communal and divisive agenda.”
