Morung Express News
Dimapur | May 9
“We haven’t yet sounded the bugle but in politics there is no timing,” stated Rajya Sabha MP and NPF Secretary General, KG Kenye at the Dimapur leg of the ‘NPF Central Team Constituency Tour’ today. With the NLA elections round the corner and the ULB elections fiasco in the recent past, the NPF is shifting focus to woo back supporters.
Addressing party workers at the Town Hall, Kenye said that the NPF’s Dimapur wing has not only the job of winning over voters but also the bigger responsibility of projecting a positive image of Dimapur and Nagaland in general. He said that Dimapur with its melting pot of mixed heritage has become the “face of Nagaland” and with that in mind the party workers have to work towards cultivating an image that is conducive to progress.
While hinting at the party’s third consecutive term in power, he said, “This is the golden age of the NPF party,” which he held has become synonymous with “Naga.”
Stating that critics will always be there, he said that in democracy it is required. “In Democracy we need strong opposition. It has to be there.”
On the issue of reservation of seat for women in the Urban Local Bodies and the subsequent hostilities, he said that the government had to eventually succumb to the demand and pressure of the public. As for the government, he said that it is well within the ambit of the NLA to modify the Nagaland Municipal Act as per the demands of the social fabric.
Justifying the party’s stand on the matter, he said that the NPF on its part was for evolving a system to nominate women in the ULBs. It was however abandoned, he said without taking names, following opposition and which ultimately landed in court.
That said he maintained that women have been at the forefront making inroads where the men have failed. Peace has eluded Nagas and time and again at the most testing of times women have turned out to be the flag bearers restoring normalcy, he said.
