Kohima, September 8 (MExN): The Kohima District Congress Committee (KDCC) on Wednesday expressed dismay at the decision of the ruling People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) of Nagaland taking the opposition Naga People’s Front (NPF) on board to from an opposition-less government under the nomenclature Nagaland United Government (NUG) “on the pretext of Naga political solution.”
Questioning the motive behind the NUG’s formation, the KDCC demanded the political parties in the State to make their stand clear on the issue of Naga integration.
The KDCC pointed out that the Government of India (GoI) as well as the Interlocutor and Governor of Nagaland RN Ravi has been reiterating that integration of Naga inhabited areas is not possible while also disagreeing to grant separate Naga flag and constitution.
In this regard, it demanded the political parties to make their stand clear on Naga integration without which it said, “a solution to the vexed struggle will be farce.”
They should also make their proposals public on the approach towards facilitating the Naga solution under NUG, the KDCC asserted.
Terming opposition-less government as a brainchild of the NPF, it recounted the 2015 ordeal wherein the NPF had “managed to lure the eight Congress MLAs in 2015 into the then DAN government on the same excuse of strengthening the efforts to find solution to the Naga political problem.”
The KDCC stated that the move had caused a political upheaval as the functioning of the government was based either in Kaziranga or Sovima, completely putting the State and its denizens in hysteria.
Meanwhile it questioned whether the coming together of the legislators under the banner of the Parliamentary Committee on Naga political issue was not enough to strengthen the Naga issue and also persuade the National leadership to grant a solution that the opposition NPF legislators have to join the ruling dispensation superseding all the norms of a democratic setup.
The KDCC reasoned that legislators from ruling and opposition parties have come together in the past to work together to facilitate the Naga political issue and they can still continue to do so.
“Cannot the opposition bench members maintain the decorum to be in their own jurisdiction to voice the concern of the public and keep the government on its toes for the general welfare while also working cohesively with the treasury bench to facilitate the Naga political issue?” it added.
Dismissing the NUG as “another attempt of both the ruling and opposition parties in the State to fulfill their own political whims and fancies at the cost of the general public,” the KDCC asserted that the Naga political struggle should be ‘people centric’ and not an instrument for the elected representatives to fool the general public for their own political gains.
Further, acknowledging the article written on Naga political issue by Sevotso Seyie, the KDCC stated that it is time for every conscious Naga to rise up to the occasion and express their views and opinions in order to have a clear understanding within the Naga family.
The KDCC also urged the civil society organizations in the State to ‘wake up from their slumber’ and work towards welfare of the general public “instead of being fooled with the false assurances of the elected representatives ‘for Naga political solution’.”
