“The Chief Minister and his coterie’s insatiable hunger for greed has reversed the state into wrong direction with nefarious elements ruling the roost.”
DIMAPUR, APRIL 1 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today stated that the “NPF in haste to prove its undying loyalty to the communal forces of BJP-RSS has lost all sense of reasoning and wisdom before the people.” A press note from the NPCC Media Cell stated that the “NPF now grapples with a problem of plenty aboard its old ship battered by countless corruptions and blatant misrule perpetrated over the past decade.” “The scenario is such that their leader Neiphiu Rio who was their undisputed captain has decided to jump the sinking NPF ship having lost all hopes of recovery,” it added.
The NPCC cited the CM’s “silence” on the Mukalimi incident and stated that he had “miserably failed to discharge his bounden duty in condemning the actions of NSCN (IM) cadres who outraged the modesty of a women leading to bloody confrontation.” With this selective, partial and polarizing attitude, the Nagas can never expect Rio to voice out for their general welfare and development, it said.
Terming the NPF rule in the state as a “lost decade for the people of Nagaland,” the NPCC claimed that the only accomplishment of the party remains “the observance of countless festive and merrymaking activities that has degraded the moral culture of the Nagas leading to direct conflict with its beliefs.”
It lamented that when the state and its people are yearning for peace and development, “the Chief Minister and his coterie’s insatiable hunger for greed has reversed the state into wrong direction with nefarious elements ruling the roost.” It further questioned the CM’s “silence” to the law and order problems in the state.
It alleged that the past decade “has seen Chief Minister Rio expanding his business empire at a lighting pace,” and added that “numerous resorts and hotels owned by Rio have sprung in Kohima and Dimapur.” It added that instead of governing the state, the Chief Minister has “become a super businessman, contractor, supplier, commission agent and broker of all deals.” It further alleged that “all major contract works in the state are carried out by firms held in the name of his late father (M/s Guolhoulie Rio & Sons) and his son (M/s Chabou & Co).”
The NPCC cited the construction of the Sovima Cricket Stadium, Raj Bhavan Banquet Hall, vehicle parking at old medical directorate Kohima, New DC Complex Chumukedima and the Chabou Fishery Project as examples.
It further said that the booklet titled “11 Years of NPF Misrule” brought out by the NPCC has detailed the “misdeeds of Chief Minister Rio and the NPF government.” It reiterated that the CM is “conveniently charting an escape route from the mess that he had created by shamelessly submitting before the communal BJP-RSS who have no respect for other’s culture or beliefs.” It claimed that the CM “has no other alternative but to join the communal forces of BJP-RSS in the vain hope of political survival when his past misdeeds are fast catching up with him.”
'Reject communal forces'
The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee has called upon the people to “make a difference by rejecting the communal forces,” in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in the state. A press note from the NPCC Media Cell urged the electorate to take into consideration “of all that would follow once a divisive communal party like the BJP-RSS is voted to power with whom Rio and the NPF pledges their allegiance.” “Each electorate can make a difference with one most precious vote guaranteed by the constitution and one vote is what we value,” it stated.
The NPPC cited the case of Swami Aseemanand, an RSS activist, who was arrested by the CBI in 2010 for his involvement in carrying out several serial bomb blasts across the country. The party said that, “in his stunning confession after the arrest, he alleged that some of the worst terror attacks in the country were sanctioned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS.” It added that Swami had also “mentioned Nagaland several times during his confessional interview” to a magazine.
According to the NPCC, “Swami brought out that Dang District in Gujarat was once upon a time called by Christians as western India’s Nagaland,” as “every village had a church in this district.” NPCC claimed that Swami had confessed that in 1998 beginning on Christmas Day, “within a span of 10 days, 40,000 Christians were converted to Hinduism and 30 churches were destroyed and converted into temples.” It said that these incidents happened under the “watchful eye of Narendra Modi, who was then a Minister in the Gujarat government under the BJP-RSS dominance, backed by the then BJP led NDA regime under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.”
NPCC stated that people with Christian names were “denied admission in schools, denied basic rights like ration card, pensions etc. and barred to write even competitive exams, let alone landing up in government job.” It said that Nagaland, being a Christian dominated state, “never has the history or case related with forceful conversion from Hindu to Christian or otherwise,” and that the core vision of the Congress is “oneness, where every citizen is given equal opportunity, believes in inclusive growth and where one can profess and worship freely without fear in Mandir, Mosque, Gurudwara, Church, Monastery etc.”
The NPCC further called upon the people to “wake up to reality and not get swayed away by money or muscle power.”
