Dimapur, October 5 (MExN): The NDPP Youth Organization today responded to the attack on the ruling People's Democratic Alliance (PDA) government by the NPF on the status of road construction in the state by stating that “the government does not control the weather conditions.”
The Naga People's Front in a press communiqué on October 4 had reminded the PDA government of its commitment in the last budget session “to complete all the roads connecting district headquarters within 30, 60 and 100 days and already seven months had lapsed but nothing of that sort was visible.”
The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) Youth Organization in its response stated that the NPF seemed to have “conveniently forgotten in the last seven month how the construction of roads and bridges are affected by the prevailing weather conditions”.
The NPF had also questioned the PDA government and the Planning Minister in particular regarding the allocation of state funds, when the latter had said that “the state government will shell out funds from its own resources as funds from the Central government will take time for the construction of road projects.” To this, the NDPP youth organization retorted, “Is the NPF so petty as to even forget that development is for the people and the state regardless of who contributed what and where?”
Responding to the NPF questions on what road projects the “PDA Government is contemplating to take up, as all the ongoing works are accorded during the previous NPF Government headed by TR Zeliang,” the NDPP youth organization said: “What matters is that those developmental activities should and must not be stalled, but ensure that it is completed so that the State can enjoy the fruits which are the endeavour of the People’s Democratic Alliance Government.”
The NDPP youth organization claimed that “the NPF seems to be still trying to cling on to the last vestiges of their glory days” for which they “owe the present Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, who in his magnanimity, more or less single-handedly rescued the party from the doldrums of political oblivion in 2003.”
It meanwhile alleged that the “Naga Peoples Front seems to think whatever little development they could bring during the last four years of the DAN government under TR Zeliang was and is the personal property of the NPF and TR Zeliang.”
The NDPP youth organisation further claimed the NPF “has made a mockery of the last House of the NLA with their struggle for power amongst themselves.” It however assured that the NDPP and PDA “will not be cowed down by baseless and false allegations but will uncover the misdeeds of the past four years and let the people be the judge of who is right and who is wrong.”
