Dimapur, January 5 (MExN): The Rising People’s Party (RPP) today charged the all-party United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Government of Nagaland for conducting “wholesale businesses” of purchasing an MLA seat and later backstabbing the Yimkhiung community.
“Let history record that the coalition of NDPP, BJP and NPF conducted one of the most abhorrent wholesale businesses – the purchase of an MLA seat in lieu of promise of a new district,” the RRP asserted in a press statement.
“Let history also record how the Yimkhiung people were openly stabbed in the back by the opposition-less government,” it added.
The RRP accusation came in the backdrop of Yimkhiung Tribal Council (YTC) statement that State Government had given assurance to make Shamator a full-fledged district in lieu of unopposed MLA in the last by-election to 58 Shamator-Chessore A/C held in October 2021.
The open letter of the apex Yimkhiung tribal body, the YTC (on December 28,2021), made it very clear that the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio promised them a district “if the NDPP candidate S Keoshu was elected unopposed,” the RPP further alleged, which the “Yimkhiung voters did.”
So far neither the CM nor the NDPP, BJP, NPF coalition have refuted this assertion which means the assertion is true, it added.
“Never in history has an elected government blackmailed an entire community into submission for an MLA seat, like this UDA coalition has done,” it further declared.
Without keeping their side of the bargain – immoral to begin with and undemocratic as well, Chief Minister and his entire cabinet decided to throw the whole Yimkhiung community under the bus, the RPP said.
The state cabinet's decision ‘to upgrade Shamator sub-division into a full-fledged District In-Principle” has “fooled no one” and added insult to injury, it argued.
In this connection, the RPP also accused the UDA coalition of ‘misusing’ the full power of the state shockingly for party politics. “But nothing about the UDA coalition surprises us anymore.”
“The politics of gaining unbridled power is the sole agenda of this coalition government. From purchased MLAs we are slowly moving into the domain of purchased districts,” it added.
The RPP further noted that it would not be surprised if tomorrow the coalition of NDPP, BJP and NPF carves out more districts on the give and take of “We give you districts, you elect our MLAs unopposed.”
Against such dirty and unscrupulous politics, the bigger question is, how “good men and women in the NDPP, BJP and NPF continue to remain silent without their conscience being pricked?” RPP wondered.
Meanwhile, the RPP lauded Yimkhiungs for refusing to “be victims” and rightly fighting back by “exposing the treachery and the lies of this coalition government.”
“Every right thinking individual and citizen need to stand up against this immoral dispensation called UDA coalition,” it added.
