BJP national president JP Nadda and others during the release of BJP manifesto for Nagaland polls in Kohima on February 14. (Morung Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | February 14
Insurgency in Nagaland has been reduced by 80 percent and the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act has been reduced and removed from about 60 percent of the area. With this, Nagaland is again back to the path of normalcy, peace prosperity and development and consolidation, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda today.
Speaking at a public meeting in Kohima, Nadda said that there was a time when “we use to say that North East means bandh, blockage, insurgency, targeted attacks, and abduction. That was the situation we faced some five years back.”
He maintained that Nagaland has been a story of development in the last 8 years and said that the state now has 3 Ps- peace, prosperity and progress.
We are all set to go forward and bring a change, he said while stressing on the need to fasten the pace of the development.
Nadda said that BJP is the party which talks about report card and no other party does that.
“It is NDPP and BJP which believes in report card politics and we learnt this from Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he said.
Referring to Eastern Nagaland, Nadda said that the talk with the leaders of the Eastern Nagaland people is going on with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“Whatever commitment the home minister has done to Eastern Nagaland and whatever had been agreed upon, we will implement in letter and spirit,” he said.
On the occasion, Nadda also released the Nagaland BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming general elections scheduled on February 27.
As per the ‘vision document,’ the party plans to establish a dedicated Nagaland Cultural Research Fund and a Saramati Cultural University to promote Naga culture. It will also invest in major tribal festivals and establish an Eastern Nagaland Development Board for the holistic development of the region. The BJP also plans to expedite the construction of the Trans-Nagaland Highway and the document also included various plans for senior citizens, unorganized workers, farmers, etc, along with several social security schemes.
Nagaland BJP president and minister Temjen Imna Along and BLP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Y Patton also delivered short speeches, while the programme was chaired by Nagaland BJP general secretary Eduzu Theluo.
