Dimapur, April 7 (MExN): The NPCC today stated that NPF President, Dr Shurhozelie “stoutly defending” the NPF’s alignment with communal BJP will be an unfortunate chapter in the history of the state. “Perhaps Dr Shurhozelie and the NPF leaders have long forgotten their upbringing and beliefs due to years of rampant misgovernance that has completely erased their conscience to distinguish between good and evil,” stated a press release issued by NPCC Media Cell. The communal colors of the NPF, it said, was glaringly evident when NPF carried out an election rally at City Tower point Dimapur on Sunday (April 6) when majority of the believers were attending church services all over the state.
Over the years, the NPCC accused, “the NPF government had reduced the relevancy of Sundays by holding official functions, important meetings and observing festivities on a day that is supposed to be revered by Christians and taken as rest day even by the non believers.” The release added, “The ready acceptance of communal forces (BJP-RSS) as their high command and following the ways of communal forces goes to prove that the power hungry NPF leaders like Rio and Shurhozelie can go to any extent to cling on to power. If only these leaders have shown their flexibility with regards to Naga political issue as they did with joining communal forces, solution would not have eluded the Nagas for the past 17 years.”
Asserting that the NPF government’s misdeeds are endless and the state is currently staring at the prospects of financial emergency being declared any time NPCC cited that the school education department received an amount of 216.65 crores from 2008-2012 under SSA program; while the utilization report was mere 34.19 crores in which 181 crores went unaccounted. Under RMSA program, the state received an amount of 6292.18 lakhs from 2009-13 but the actual expenditure report was only 5708.495 lakhs, highlighting financial misappropriation of 583.685 lakhs. The Dimapur-Niuland road covering a distance of 28 km consumed 28.83 crores in 2010-11, the release added. However, it said, “works on ground was more of filling up potholes and black painting the existing metalled road thereby proving a case of shoddy workmanship displayed by the contractors in connivance with the then minister for R&B in DAN-II.”
‘BJP manifesto a threat to ongoing Naga political peace talks’
Meanwhile, NPCC stated that the BJP election manifesto which was released today expectedly brought out its commitment to abrogate Article 370 in J&K, facilitate construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, protect and promote cow and its progeny and to draft a Uniform Civil Code.
“While Rio has loudly proclaimed the seriousness of BJP to find solution on the Naga political issue, the BJP manifesto that was released today rather promises to deal with insurgent groups in North East with a firm hand, implying that they will never yield to the demands of insurgent groups,” NPCC added. “The BJP Manifesto is therefore a threat to ongoing Naga political peace talks apart from imposing their culture and beliefs on the Nagas who are religious minorities in the larger context of the nation.”
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