DIMAPUR, MAY 27 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has stated that the “sheer criminal negligence of the state government has once again been exposed” when 169 returnees were sent back to Tuensang after just 3 days of institutional quarantine at Kohima.
“The government violated its own 14 days institutional quarantine rule. Shockingly, one returnee who was among 169 passengers packed off from Kohima without waiting for test results was declared positive only after reaching Tuensang,” a press release from the NPCC rued.
It accused the State Government of “totally abdicating its responsibility to the people of Nagaland.”
“Its eagerness to be held hostage by the diktats of some civil society organisations and local bodies has sliced opened the wounds of discrimination and imbalanced share of development that is visible all over the state,” the NPCC claimed.
The party expressed concern that Nagaland is in a state of total panic, even as the State Government had assured that “they are well prepared during the initials days of lockdown.”
“The rot in the government runs deep and this will only aggravate the lives of the citizens during this pandemic. By its actions, the government seems more concerned about saving its political face rather than save the people of Nagaland,” the NPCC alleged.
It therefore demanded that the Nagaland Governor “step in to salvage the situation by dismissing this incompetent and callous government that is only interested in clinging on to power at whatever cost.” “It’s continuation in office will only prolong the miseries suffered by the people that is becoming unbearable with each passing day,” the NPCC stated.
