Kohima, October 23 (MExN): The Rio-led Naga People’s Front (NPF) today claimed that the rival NPF group took the recent ECI order to settle their disputes internally “as a tool and opportunity for media glitz and went viral blatantly projecting themselves as victorious.”
The Election Commission of India (ECI) “in good faith had directed both rival groups within NPF as per its Order 56/Dispute/03/2017/PPS-II to settle disputes internally and that both may first exhaust the mechanism in the NPF Party Constitution until which ECI may not adjudicate the matter,” noted a press release from Press & Information Cell of Rio-led NPF.
It accused the Shürhozelie group of attempting to justify and impress the general public through the media while trying to manipulate every issue at hand.
“Being an impartial body, ECI clearly did not intend to be harsh with any group but had accepted the fact, as stated in its Order…that the NPF Party led by Neiphiu Rio as President enjoys the support of majority MLAs and majority Central Office Bearers whereas Dr. SL’s group had only 10 MLAs out of 47 NPF MLA’s under its belt,” the release added.
