Dimapur, September 1 (MExN): The query of Nagaland Home minister to “define freedom” is derided by the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee which today lamented that the minister has “completely gone out of track.” The Congress has demanded that the state government should take steps to remove from the high-profile, principal and sensitive office “such rogue savage and don’t care a hoot type of person.”
The NPCC issued a response to Imchen’s remarks today. The Congress said constitutional propriety demands constitutional authorities not to make any comments “contrary to what the laws strictly prescribed.” The NPCC stated that the Home minister of Nagaland – who has taken the oath of ‘affirmation’ to the Constitution of India – has crossed “the limit and in rebel tone and character.” The NPCC charged him of saying that the ongoing political talks between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) was not within the purview of the constitution of India and that any “agreed point” should also be outside it.
“Again, in total contradiction to what he had emphasized, eh stressed that any agreement made between the two parties should be incorporated in the Constitution of India by making amendment,” the NPCC lamented.
“If the Home minister is so concerned about solving the vexed Naga political problem by harping on constitutional amendments, let him specifically bring out his amendment proposals as the state Home minister representing the Naga people instead of constantly shedding the entire responsibility to the government of Indian and the concerned underground groups involving in the political dialogue,” the NPCC challenged.
The Congress also charged the Home minister of ridiculing that the Nagas lacked “proper understanding of its definition. “Portraying himself as a political authority and guru on Naga political issue, the Home minister attempted to undermine the wisdom of the Naga people and the genuine cause for which the Nagas have been struggling for more than 60 years,” the NPCC stated. The Home minister, if he “has any better definition on the notion of independence,” should specify “openly and candidly, the NPCC stated.
The Congress asserted that the Nagas have not lost sight of the “Naga political agenda.” It is the Home minister, NPCC stated, who has “completely gone out of track and in his misadventure and political mishap, he is trying to mislead and confuse the Naga people on one hand and blatantly abusing the cahier of Home minister within Indian union.”
