Our Correspondent
Kohima | October 27
MLA Yitachu today said that none of the ten NPF MLAs would be disqualified in any manner.
Addressing the sit–in-protest spearheaded by NPF Central Youth Wing which entered fifth day today here, Yitachu said there is nothing to worry and the 10 MLAs will stand for the Naga people.
The party will bring out the truth and show to the Naga people, he said. “We will fight for the right of the Naga people and see that proper governance and law reigns in our state.”
Meanwhile, Yitachu told the gathering the party will take a break on Saturday and Sunday and resume its sit-in-protest on Monday as “there is still lot of pending issues which the people need to know and we have to take all those things to final conclusion.”
NPF spokesperson Achumbemo Kikon meanwhile said the NLA speaker summoning NPF legislators “who are with us” will not change anything. Kikon also denounced the action of the NLA Speaker in not acting on the rules and regulation that is laid down under the Constitution of India and the assembly rules.
“We will not allow such things to happen in our area and in our land,” he asserted.
Kikon further maintained the rival NPF group “cannot use our nomenclature, they can use our symbol, they cannot use our flag, they cannot use our letter head.”
Regarding the rival group’s plan to file for review of the Election Commission of India order, Kikon said it is impossible as “we have already acknowledged the order which was issued to us by Election Commission of India and in pursuance to that we have even notified calling general convention which is slated to be held on November 22 in Kohima.”
“We have already set the process. Now they are trying to review. It cannot be possible,” Kikon said.
Telling the party men and women that “we will succeed in any case,” he added, “we are winning and we will win. There is nothing to worry.”
He stated the NPF has not failed the Naga people in any occasion.
In 1998, he said, the cock party had sacrificed for the Naga cause, to pave way for peace process to bring an early settlement to the Naga issue, by refraining themselves from participating in the state assembly elections.
He asserted NPF will go back to the voters with all facts and figures in their hands and “definitely we will triumph and emerge victorious.”
