Dimapur, July 31 (MExN): The bizarre political ideas, soft-pedaling and appeasing ways of the DAN government are leaving the public vulnerable and have also weakened administrative citizenship and governance, the Congress today reminded the regime. Following recent uncomfortable stances taken by the government to a number of socio-political issues, the Nagaland Congress today said the state’s skewed policies are undermining the system giving rise to more anti-social tendencies.
The Congress highlighted a number of some recent issues such as the government’s uneasy categorization of crime as “political in nature,” the soft and docile application of the rule of law and recently, the state’s “shedding its responsibility and hang it on the shoulder of the social organizations.”
The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee’s media cell issued a statement today reminding that killing, extortion, abduction, raping and molestation, intimidation and threats, illegal taxation and all other form of crimes are against humanity and are a law and order problem. It was expected of the government to act on this issue with a firm hand in the interest of the people, the Congress said.
“But the NPF leaders stoutly defended themselves by propounding their weird political concept that killing, extortion, abduction, raping and other heinous crimes are political in nature and made attempts to convince the people to acknowledge perpetrating of these crimes as a subject matter of unresolved Naga political problem,” the Congress echoed.
The DAN leaders thought that deceptive, opportunistic and appeasement concepts would work to serve their hold on power, the opposition opined. However, the opposition pointed out, the DAN government’s ways have turned out to be counter-productive as their soft and passive methods of administration, security system and applications of rule of law have snowballed into ‘an explosive situation today.’
“Seeing that the DAN government’s Frankenstein creation has taken its toll on the society, the DAN leaders have finally admitted its failure to contain law and order problem in Nagaland,” the Congress said. The NPCC observed that the overall law and order scenario has failed in Nagaland for the last several years not because of any other reason but “deficiency” in the state leadership. They have failed to devise strong and resolute “modes” to support and back the administrative and security machineries, the NPCC said.
The Congress said that the government, if it stands firm and show its determination to deal with the law and order problem in Nagaland backed by the plethora of legal provisions and administrative and policing powers, why should there be the need to rope in the services of social organizations?
“DAN Government should know that as long as it carry out its roles and duties on law and order problem with strong and firm hand, the entire public, social organizations including the political parties are behind them, there is no doubt about it. But it is quite ironic that the DAN Government has embarked on the usual behavior of shedding its responsibility and hang it on the shoulder of the social organizations.”
The government’s wrong approaches have extensively weakened the administrative and social security system to a great extent; this is responsible for the growing anti-social elements to ‘loom at large’ and leave the innocent public as vulnerable prey of criminals, the Congress reminded the NPF-led DAN.
In the meeting on law and order held at Kohima on July 29, the Congress said, the chief minister had asserted that unless all “overground” and underground Nagas unite ‘with a single voice,’ solution will not come. The statement is “attractive and alluring” but contradictory and confusing as well, the Congress said. “When he is creating chasm and hegemony at all levels in line with his pet concept of ‘equi-closeness’, where is the feasibility of our people coming together as one?” the Congress queried. Further, the opposition ridiculed the chief minister’s assertion that, ‘Nagas have lost political objective.’ In reality, the Congress said, “it is not the Naga people but the chief minister himself who has lost political objective considering his flip-flop and slippery behaviors and conducts on Naga political issue.”
