Dimapur, March 18 (MExN): Reacting to communal charges leveled by the Congress against BJP and its alliances, BJP Nagaland has called Congress the real perpetrators of communalism under the garb of a centrist secular party. “If the congress is not communal, then why did the communal incidents in Muzaffarnagar in collusion with the SP party, Bodo and Muslims in Kokrajhar area and Karbi Rengma clashes near home happen,” questioned a press statement issued by BJP Nagaland secretary Jaangsillung Gonmei. “Certainly because of their covertly passive government attitude,” it added.
The BJP Nagaland rejected the charges of NPCC against Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister and DAN consensus parliamentary candidate and BJP as “just another routine congress effort to wash off their misrule dirt on BJP.” The state BJP opined that “NPCC is visibly shaken of its impending downfall and has therefore scathingly charged Neiphiu Rio, Chief Minister…of sectarian agenda.” Ironically, it added, "the NPCC has leveled its charges at the DAN government without acknowledging the fact that the present state’s political and financial dilemma is the outcome of the deliberate non cooperation policies of the Congress I’s UPA government at the instigation of the NPCC.”
As to NPCC’s accusation that Neiphiu Rio did not deliver the Naga solution within three months as promised, the statement said NPCC ought to have checked their facts that the Naga political issue is a central subject and as R.S. Pandey, the interlocutor for Naga talks had revealed, the Congress UPA regime had been sitting over the matter all these eleven years and stalling it. On the state’s financial situation, it agreed it is in a totally bad shape. However, BJP stated it has been accentuated by the fact that under the UPA government, several central flagship programmes and schemes such as PDS and SASRD had been downsized or suspended and the overall state budget had been slashed.
Further, BJP declared that the current DAN initiative to strengthen the NDA is “by no means to justify the ill informed misgivings of the NPCC that this initiative is to further any sectarian motives as they accuse the BJP and its allies of.” Clarifying on the allegation regarding Anti conversion, BJP affirmed it is against politically or communally motivated forms of mass religious conversions among different religions of the country for the sake of social or political convenience at a given period, time or circumstances. Rather, BJP is for religious conversions driven by an individual’s spiritual commitment within the ambit and as guaranteed by the fundamental rights of the constitution, it added.
On the cow slaughter legislation, BJP responded to NPCC that cow slaughter comes under the directive policy which is non-enforceable. And in keeping with the Hindu majority sentiments, it is the general observation that the dietary requirement of the non Hindus had always been compensated by the slaughter of buffaloes all over except the north east, it added. The BJP leaders, the statement said, are aware of the diversity of the country’s religion, culture and dietary habits.
