DIMAPUR, MARCH 3 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today asked the Naga People’s Front (NPF) to clarify “on whether it approves TR Zeliang’s claim that he was dislodged as CM, just because he was from a minority tribe in Nagaland.”
“This minority tribe remark negates all the tall claims by the NPF about TR Zeliang’s so called supreme sacrifice. TR Zeliang himself was responsible for his own downfall and explaining his position to the people of Manipur will not absolve him in the eyes of the people of Nagaland,” it stated.
The Congress said that former Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang and Education Minister, Yitachu have “got their facts wrong while comparing Manipur situation on use of central forces.”
A press note from the NPCC media cell said that “the entire central BJP leadership including Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh have been relentlessly accusing Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh of not using sufficient central security forces to stabilize the situation.”
It added that the entire ULB election fiasco and the lawlessness that followed was “because of the indecisiveness and mismanagement on the part of TR Zeliang and the NPF who did not even hesitate to betray the institution of NBCC for their narrow political gains.”
The Congress further termed it “a pity” that a regional party like NPF has “allowed the BJP-RSS to dictate their thinking and policies and become their supreme high command.” It also claimed that the “flip flops of NPF campaign in Manipur are not helping our brethrens either.” Terming it ironic that the NPF Spokesman had “during recent election rally in Tamenglong (Manipur) urged people not to vote for communal BJP,” it asked the NPF to explain “how the BJP becomes communal party in Manipur while they have no inhibitions to be together in Nagaland.”
