DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 12 (MExN): The Nagaland State Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today refuted allegations that he had asked a delegation of the NBCC to convey to the NTAC and the JCC to let him stay in power till March, the end of the financial year.
A press note from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) termed these allegations as “absolutely false, delusive and concocted with the malicious intention of doing mischief to the image and integrity of the Chief Minister.”
“That a leader of the JCC could stoop so low to make such a fanciful allegation and that too, dragging in the name of the revered NBCC in his flight of fancy, is deplorable,” the CMO added.
It further mentioned that the Nagaland CM holds the NBCC “in the highest of esteem and greatly appreciates the efforts it has been making to find an amicable solution to the present imbroglio. And he urges everyone not to use the good name of the NBCC in vain.”
The CM, it informed had a series of meetings with the NBCC in the past two weeks “but at no point of time had he ever made such a disgraceful request, or had such a thought ever entered his mind.”
The CM, meanwhile, viewed that “responsible leaders should make responsible statements.”
NBCC denies receiving such request from govt
The Nagaland Baptist Churches Council (NBCC) today stated that it has not received any request from the Nagaland Chief Minister “to be in office till the end of the financial year.”
A press note from the NBCC stated that these reports came as a “shock” to the council, and informed that it “has not received such request from the government during the course of our discussions nor have we conveyed that message to any party involved.”
“If such a statement has been made by any member of the NBCC team we want to make it clear that it does not represent the official communication of the NBCC mediating team,” it added. This clarification, the NBCC said, “is made to clear the air that no such idea or request has ever surfaced in the course of our conversation or been tabled by the government to NBCC.”
