DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 15 (MExN): Responding to the recent statement of the Congress accusing the DAN government as the most corrupt, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) today countered that the citizens of Nagaland “cannot be carried away by such cheap propaganda.”
A press release from the NPF press and media bureau termed it a shame that the “national party, infamous for its 2G, 3G, CWG, Coal gate, helicopter scandal,” is trying to “repair itself through a media war.” The NPCC, it stated “cannot hurl wild allegations in the dark and try to garner public sympathy.”
The NPF meanwhile informed that the government has already decided to release the payment of SSA teachers by the end of November and it will not go back from its words. Regarding ratification of GST Bill by Nagaland, the NPF stated that this move has “no nexus to article 371A. “GST is not an issue coverable by any of the four legislative fields enumerated in article 371A,” it added. On the NLA’s decision to provide women’s reservation, the NPF stated that despite opposition, the State Cabinet “felt that it is time now to go ahead with women reservation and conduct the polls in accordance with the provisions of our own State Act.”
Regarding the CM’s qualification issue, the NPF said that the matter is sub juice, and thus it is “advisable not to discuss merits in the media.” It is not very relevant to discuss the same as it does not serve any public interest, it added.
Further, it stated that the NLA is the forum of Constitutionally-enabled free expression. “Any statement by anyone that voice of the MLAs is being throttled on the floor would invite serious action under Parliamentary privileges. If there is unanimity of views and there is absence of opposition to Government, it cannot be termed as despotic,” it claimed.
Meanwhile, it informed that the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs recently visited Eastern Nagaland and “knew very well that the poor condition of the Highways is attributable only to the Centre and not to the State.”
