Morung Express News
Dimapur | May 16
“Congress wants to know the contents of the Framework Agreement signed on August 3, 2015. The BJP Government cannot take Nagaland for a long ride,” said Dr K Jayakumar, AICC Secretary in-charge of North East.
Addressing the media at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur on Tuesday, Dr. Jayakumar referred to media reports and said that the Framework Agreement “remained silent about the territories involved and that it is confined only to Nagaland leaving aside the rest of the Nagas.”
He hit out at Prime Minister, Narendra Modi for stating that the agreement would not affect Manipuris during the last election campaign there. Dr. Jayakumar said Modi might repeat the statement when he goes to Arunachal and Assam.
“Therefore, one would certainly wonder as to whom it is going to benefit then and to what an extent,” he said and described it as a “hollow assurance” of the PM.
Dr. Jayakumar said that the Congress of Nagaland’s neighbours had made it clear that they would support the agreement only if the contents were made known. “The BJP’s sincerity includes not letting anyone know that what the agreement was and the so called agreement signed in August 2015 has been lying in the cold storage for almost two years now,” he added.
Dr. Jayakumar further stated that the Prime Minister who is set to celebrate his third year in office on May 26 would rather be celebrating a day of failures than success. He criticized the BJP government for failing on all fronts and remaining silent on cow vigilantism, anti-romeo squads and ‘private armies’ of the RSS.
In response to the Nagaland BJP demanding proof of atrocities committed on minorities in the country, Dr. Jayakumar read out a lengthy list of such “atrocities” committed on Christians and other minorities in different states of the country.
The AICC leader also described it a “pity” that Nagaland Minister, Imkong L Imchen was “begging for participation of the State Government” in the ongoing talks between the NSCN (IM) and Government of India.
He alleged that the State of Nagaland was totally immersed in corruption with the worst infrastructure and its economy going down. There is hardly any road, not even proper mud roads, he added.
The AICC leader who toured almost all districts of the state since May 7 except Peren, Phek and Kiphire said all the district Congress were “quite agile and getting geared up for polls.”
Former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Nabam Tuki who is also the Pradesh Returning Officer, Nagaland for Congress Organizational Election; General Secretary AIMCC in-charge of NE, Jarjum Ete and NPCC member and Former Speaker, E.T. Ezung were also present during the press conference.
NPCC organizational election
Pradesh Returning Officer, Nagaland, Nabam Tuki, former CM of Arunachal Pradesh has appointed P. Ayang Aonok, Working President, NPCC as the in-charge of Organizational Election 2017, Nagaland. Former Speaker, ET Ezung has been appointed as the Chairman of NPCC Election Committee with ex-Minister, Seyiekuolie and ex-MLA Lanpha Konyak as members.
