Dimapur, October 10 (MExN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) today said that it is “absurd and inappropriate” on the part of the NDPP to lecture them about assembly proceedings “which they themselves should learn by heart as a still born political party.”
A press note from the NPF central hq reminded that its legislature party has expressed “extreme displeasure at the biased attitude and step motherly treatment meted out to its members during the recently concluded Assembly Session by the Speaker’s chair.”
"NDPP should equipped themselves properly with the parliamentary decorum and norms of the house before pointing its finger at NPF which is way far ahead of them," it said.
It added that the NPF legislature party has only pointed out the defects of the assembly proceedings based on “solid foundation and reasoning with an objective to uphold the dignity and prestige of the decorum of the house, which was projected in poor light at the biased attitude of the speaker.”
It further asked NDPP party workers whether they witnessed the proceedings of the recently concluded Assembly Session as “any sensible person who attended the proceeding would have gained ample knowledge on how the most revered chair has failed to apply his wisdom and has kept the August House in shambles, remote controlled by the big bosses to escape further disgrace from the opposition bench.”
It added that the NPF is taken aback at the NDPP for comparing the 12th and the 13th NLA which it stated “are worlds apart as the two houses comprises of different representatives and there is no way that the two could be presented in the same picture as the circumstances leading to the previous political events are poles apart…”
The NPF also pointed out that the last opposition-less government had witnessed a situation where no questions could be raised by any members. Whereas, in the present 13th house, it alleged that the Speaker has “restricted its members to utilize the question hour judiciously on pertinent issues which is the bone of contention here.”
It further claimed that the question hour has been adjusted with the other items of the business listed for the day.
It meanwhile asked the NDPP to “teach their MLAs well on parliamentary decorum of the house before they come for Assembly Session.” Terming the ruling party’s behavior as “childish,” it reminded the PDA Alliances that “Naga people have given their mandate to the NPF during the last general election due to the fact that NPF alone has returned 26 MLAs in the house of 60, breaking an all time record to emerge as the strongest and the single largest political party in the state.”
It finally advised the ruling dispensation to “concentrate more on the core issues in the state and further tighten their seat belt, get back to work and deliver what had been promised to the people of Nagaland.”
