DIMAPUR, JUNE 23 (MExN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) has termed NPCC’s statement criticizing the decision of the party to support the BJP-RSS Presidential candidate as “political nonsense.”
A rejoinder issued by the media & press bureau, NPF central office on Friday said the NPCC and its president as no moral right to grumble or question the decision of the NPF to maintain its alliance with the NDA or with any other party at the centre.
“Therie has absolutely no right whatsoever to question the NPF-led DAN government to support or not to support any body’s candidature in the forthcoming presidential election. The NPF doesn’t need the approval of NPCC to support someone’s Presidential candidature,” the NPF rejoinder countered. It stated that the NPF has always been an ally of the non-Congress national party since 1977 even before the BJP was formed and this alliance was renewed and strengthened in the early part of 2003 when in our state the non-Congress political parties formed the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland. The NPF also reminded that the NPCC President, who himself was once a Minister in the NPF-led DAN government, knows the principles of the NPF party, “but strangely, he is now trying to decide for the NPF party who it should support for the Presidential election.”
Rather, the NPF suggested that he should “display his political maturity and concentrate on how or what his party can contribute for the Presidential election rather than wasting his time on nonsense activities such as poking his nose over the upcoming bye election issue which is purely the concern of the ECI.”
The NPF also reminded the Congress party and its president that NPF, being an alliance partner of the NDA, shall continue to uphold the alliance principles, and “shall not stop to throw stones at each barking dog but take the people forward to the destination of peace, progress and prosperity.”
