DIMAPUR, OCT 18 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has reacted to the State Home Minister, Thenucho’s statement wherein he has compared the deteriorating law and order situation to the ceasefire Agreement of 1964. The NPCC reminding Thenucho that it is his responsibility to see that the present law and order situation cannot be compared to the past Cease Fire Agreement of 1964, where there was only one underground organization and pointed out that the present cease fire agreement has been signed by the two NSCN groups with the Government of India. “Law and order matter comes under the State subject and the Home Minister tends to shift the responsibility to the Central Government on an excuse to review and amend the ceasefire ground rules”, NPCC President Hokheto Sumi stated in a press communiqué.
Pointing that the recent visit of the Home Minister to Singapore has got no relevancy with the type of situation the state police forces are facing in Nagaland, the NPCC alleged that instead the Minister’s visit was to escape facing the anger of the people as an IRB personnel had shot at an innocent student at Kohima town. “If the Minister is having concern for the people, he should have cancelled his official trip”, the NPCC remarked.
Responding to the Home Minister that the state police force lack proper basic training and thus they can be termed as unqualified police force, the NPCC stated that “after so much reported cases of police atrocities on the innocent people, a realization has come from the Home Minister to have a ‘police training academy’ and a ‘plan to introduce community policing to cement the relation between the public and police’. Does he mean to communitize the police force?”
The NPCC further expressed concern over a media coverage wherein the name of the Congress party was dragged into a law and order issue without specifying the reasons and urged upon the media fraternity to refrain from such baseless allegations against a particular political party/politician and rather play a positive role while disseminating correct information to the public.
