DIMAPUR, JUNE 22 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Thursday said the NPF party has given final burial to its regional identity and have become a full-fledged proxy party for BJP-RSS in Nagaland by hurriedly supporting the BJP-RSS candidate for the Presidential election.
“Our belief, culture and way of life have been greatly compromised in the name of garnering benefits of development and good governance which is still a farfetched dream,” NPCC media cell in a press statement said. It therefore criticized the NPF- BJP alliance as “without any principles but based solely on petty benefits,” while adding that “despite BJP calling NPF 200% corrupt and NPF calling BJP anti Christian party, yet they continue to sail together in a rotten boat.”
The NPCC said the upcoming presidential election clearly defines which side of the divide a political party stands on two competing ideas of India-the first being the one bequeathed to us by our founding fathers and framers of our Constitution which led to the establishment of a free India based on liberal democracy, equality of all faiths and pluralism.
However, it alleged that this established idea of India is being challenged by the BJP government with, as the Prime Minister Modi himself called, “New India,” adding that this New India is nothing but another term for Hindutva. The core principle of the Hindutva ideology is “one nation, one race, one culture’’ which translates into a Hindu Rashtra, an idea of India that the RSS had been working even before Independence, it pointed out.
The country is at a crossroads because the established idea of India is being challenged by the new idea of India labeled in Hindutva package. Every election, in this backdrop, turns into a battlefield for these two competing ideas of India, it said.
In this juncture, the NPCC maintained that the ongoing presidential election is no exception and lamented that the “NPF under the leadership of Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu has readily embraced the new idea of India which has nothing to offer our people except infringing on our rights and curtailing our liberties with each passing day.”
