DIMAPUR, JULY 23 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today took another dig at the severance of ties between the Naga People’s Front (NPF) and the BJP, which is the ruling party at the centre.
A press note from the NPCC said that the “sudden discovery by NPF that BJP is communal party,” and “discoveries” regarding the Nagaland State Governor, PB Acharya and Nagaland State Chief Minister “is a belated but welcome sign that vindicates the assertion of the NPCC all through the years.”
However, the Congress said that the NPF “cannot absolve itself for being the comfort party of BJP.” It further alleged that the NPF had been the BJP’s “springboard and to put it in their own words- ‘natural ally.’”
It deduced that the NPF argument about the “sinister agenda of the BJP-RSS exposes its own double standards arising out of being kicked badly by its natural ally BJP.” The BJP, the Congress said, “has a lot to thank the NPF for allowing it to take roots and nurturing its growth.” “The spurt of RSS activities in the state has been flourishing under the patronage of NPF who had deliberately turned a blind eye for the love of power and money,” the Congress alleged.
It further stated that since May 2014 “when BJP came to power, the communal temperatures in the country has been heated up by the BJP-RSS to consolidate its holding on power and the nation remains divided more than ever.”
“When other states were vociferously protesting against BJP-RSS divisive politics on a host of issues like Christmas Day being declared Good Governance Day, Good Friday as Digital India Day, Beef Ban and so on, the deadly silence of the NPF and its stout defending of the BJP-RSS agenda cannot be easily forgotten by the people,” the NPCC added.
Till some weeks back, the Congress pointed out that the NPF “had never failed to repeatedly proclaim BJP as their natural ally since 1977 forgetting that BJP was formed only on 6 April 1980.”
The NPCC as such appealed to “all secular minded people who believe in the principles of secularism, socialism and democracy to come together and save the state from impending dangers of communal forces.”
Reminding the public about the upcoming assembly elections in 2018, the Congress said that the people “will have a choice to either vote for secular front or communal forces.” “Unless the communal forces are defeated, posterity will never forgive us for succumbing to the lure of instant gains that will destroy our identity and our way of life forever,” it warned.
