Dimapur, November 9 (MExN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) has snapped the “much hype achievement lists” of the PDA Government announcement made during the 3rd General Convention of the NDPP by the Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio at Kohima. “The so called announcement is nothing but, 'boring', as the reality on the ground is quite contradictory,” stated the Press Bureau, NPF in a press statement. The NPF expressed surprise over one resolution point which stated, 'Deed not Word', as the “very word is the manufactured word found in the manifesto of the way back 1977 regional political party of the state, National Council of Nagaland.” The NPF asserted that Rio’s claimant on ending VIP culture has “become more or less a joke” as Nagas cannot be taken for a ride or fooled any further. It stated that not contended with these events, the PDA Government while talking about good governance and transparency and promising to provide good roads within 30 days, 60 days that stretches yet again to 100 days, declaring that all district roads will be repaired, but to the amazement of every citizens in the state, the promised good roads has gone down the drain with the change of seasons, fulfilling their slogan, “Change is coming”. Further taking a dig at Rio’s claim that all government teachers were mapped digitally to maintain transparency, the NPF has “advised” Rio, “It is far better to pay teacher's salary regularly and looked into their well beings instead of mapping them digitally, as teachers are the backbone of a strong society, and deserved to be well treated.” The NPF has asked Rio to stop fooling the Naga populace with his “backtracked statement on Naga integration issue as he has already shown his true color when he declared loud and clear that Naga integration is no longer possible, after his meeting with Rajnath in Delhi and therefore reaffirming that his Government will uphold integration of all Naga contiguous inhabited areas under one administrative unit is misleading.” The NPF asserted that “celebrating Mini Horbill festivals at a time when Nagas are reeling in distress about sky rocketing price commodities, with literally no roads to travel on, is nothing but a poor flop show of governance on the part of the PDA Government.” Condemning the reaffirmation of the NDPP party to pursue for gender equality under spirit of peace, democracy and freedom, as enshrined in the party’s constitution, the NPF has asked the NDPP to fulfill its commitments and immediately looked into the 33% reservation issue for women without any further delay tactics , instead of playing with the emotions of the empowered Naga women by providing pink buses as a stop gap arrangement to fool them, which is nothing but “making a spectacle of the present Government as well as the NDPP party, which in turn has become the biggest joke of the day.
