Kohima, June 30 (MExN): In response to the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee’s allegation of nepotism against Chief Minister Shürhozelie Liezietsu following the appointment of his son Khriehu Liezietsu as an Advisor with cabinet status, Naga People’s Front (NPF) today stated that the appointment was made “due to the demand of the party functionaries who feel that the sacrifice of vacating his (Khriehu) seat in the larger interest of the NPF-led DAN Government should not go unappreciated.”
“There was a clamour of demands to reward him for making the supreme political sacrifice at the CEC meeting on June 14 last, and accordingly, the appointment was made,” Media & Press Bureau, NPF Central office said in a rejoinder.
Accusing the Congress party of being allergic to “political parties flush with allies”, it further stated NPF, which has no shortage of politically like-minded parties, is determined to edge out the Congress from the political scene in the region and country.
“… As the country slowly limped back to normalcy from the dark era of Emergency imposed by the Congress party, the forerunner of the NPF realized the danger posed by the INC and formed alliance with non-Congress national parties in 1977. Since then, there has been no looking back and with the emergence of BJP to take on the might of the Indian National Congress which had been looting the nation…, the NPF has realised that the BJP is its natural ally,” the NPF affirmed.
The rejoinder further asserted that regional party like the NPF, to ensure the security, rights and interests of the people, must align itself with national political parties whether they are in power or not, “to stop recurrence of the Dark Years the country went through the Emergency period in the 1970s brought about by the Congress, or the blatant embezzlement of national funds like the country had witnessed under Congress rule.”
Meanwhile, the NPF claimed that the Congress did not want to solve the Naga problem and kept it pending all those years that it was in power here in the State and at the Centre.
Making a personal attack on the NPCC president, the rejoinder further said the former took revenge on his “perceived foes in the shape of his former colleagues and expelled them all from the party. He is now a General without Soldiers.”
With elections just round the corner, it added, the Congress party is “making noises just for the sake of being heard... But howling alone won’t get the Congress party its mates, for the party is yet to go through an acid test of achieving victory in electoral battle under the leadership of K. Therie.”
