DIMAPUR, MARCH 1 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today stated that the recent statements made by former Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang and Education Minister Yitachu on the government decision not to use central forces during the recent protests and violence “exposes their hollow mindset that has no respect for voices and sentiments of the people.”
A press note from the NBCC media cell said that the entire ULB election fiasco and loss of lives and property “could have been averted had these leaders tactfully handled the simmering situation.”
“Moreover, TR Zeliang has brought disrepute to himself by claiming that he is the victim of majoritarian politics. If that be the case, how did he become the Chief Minister in the first place? Rather than be thankful to the legislators for allowing him the opportunity to head the government, his statement in Tamenglong speaks of pettiness and negative attitude that is unbecoming of the position he held,” the Congress said. “Playing the minority card is a desperate attempt to polarize the people on communal lines,” it stated, and asked the former CM to “know that he is playing with fire that can burn his hands instead of others.”
The NPCC meanwhile termed it ironic that the NPF “claims to listen to the wishes and aspirations of the common people while asserting that people were the party’s high command.” Nagaland, it reminded, was shut down for more than three weeks “since the exact opposite action was taken by NPF government.”
It alleged that the NPF “lost its regional identity long ago and its high command is now the BJP-RSS.” “It will better for the NPF to merge with BJP-RSS rather than pretend to be separate entities when they are already two sides of the same coin,” it added.
