Dimapur, November 4 (MExN): The NPCC continues the spat over the Speaker’s action this time not taking light the NPF’s chief’s statement and terming Dr. Shürhozelie’s response “as nothing but a sound emerging from a huge decaying hollow tree”.
The NPCC countered the NPF, and pointed out that “Whether the matter pertains to 10th or 11th Assembly, two wrongs do not make one right” for the simple reason that the “issue in question is a matter of rule of law and constitutionality in its appropriate place and not the way NPF President twisted the issue to confuse the people of Nagaland for cheap political gain”.
In a note appended by S. Supongmeren. Jamir, general secretary, i/c Legal & Media, the Congress iterated that the ruling of the Guwahati High Court made it emphatically clear that the Speaker was “constitutionally wrong” for “taking away the legitimate rights of the 12 MLAs”. Further that the NLA Speaker “was legally censored and implicated by the court, the Supreme authority”.
“Therefore, rebutting NPF President’s statement, the NPCC wished to make it very clear that his contention is not based on legal and sound foundation but on erroneous and irrational ground,” the note stated.
Accusing the NPF president of using literary skills to justify the Speaker’s actions to the extent that “Speaker can bend and twist onstitutional law to his liking or disliking” the Congress had this in response: “Though NPF President is profusely defending the Speaker’s action, an analogy would be sufficient to amplify the stand of the NPCC. For instance, the Speaker was staring at one fellow and merely suspecting him to be committing the crime; the Speaker killed him instantly even though the deceased was innocent and did no wrong. Similarly, in the strict sense of law, the Speaker had crossed his permitted boundary and did serious mischief against the 12 MLAs.” (sic).
The Congress alleged that the “NPF President is exerting his point that the Speaker is above the law of the land,” and further cautioned, “The more NPF President defends him the more the Speaker shall face embarrassment”.
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