Dimapur, December 27 (MExN): In solidarity with the farmers’ demand to repeal the three ‘draconian’ agriculture laws, the Nagaland Pradesh District Committee (NPCC) has said it will not celebrate the 136th anniversary of the Indian National Congress (INC), which is on December 28.
In a press release on Sunday, NPCC President K Therie stated that Delhi “is under siege for one month by farmers demanding to repeal the Agriculture Bills that intend to destroy the most successful system that farmers have enjoyed, in favour of corporates.”
The new Agriculture Bills, he said, are unusual in the Indian Constitution and they have removed the fundamental right of appeal in the Court.
“Immunity has been granted to corporates too, not only the officials and Government. Aggrieved people have no right to appeal to the Court. It attacks the Constitution, democracy and our farmers directly,” he said while adding that the voices of billions of farmers are not being heard.
The state party President further stated that unlike other political parties whose histories begin after Indian Independence, the INC was organised in 1883 by Allan Octavian Hume, a Civil Service Officer.
Therie stated that it was the INC that achieved Independence and the democratic Constitution of India which provides a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic, and asserted that the Congress party’s stand is the Constitution of India.
“In today’s changed situation and Nagaland’s context, I do not see the prevalence of the Constitution. Constitution and Rules are hardly referred in file noting. The instinct of ‘I want more’ and its desires overrides the constitution, the law and the rules. Corruption is accepted as a way of life,” Therie said in the statement.
Further stating that “the Constitution is under serious attack,” across the nation, Therie said that, “the divide, intervention in personal faith, personal freedom, customary laws and anti-people bills, will be the reason of the second partition of India for which BJP will be solely responsible.”
“The Constitution of India that promises to secure justice, liberty, equality to all citizens and promote fraternity to maintain unity and integrity of the nation, and that which provides freedom of expression, liberty, faith and the freedom to grow, is no more safe in the hands of BJP,” he added.
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