Dimapur | November 7 : In a late afternoon bomb shell, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has decided to pull out from the Democratic Alliance Nagaland (DAN), signaling the end DAN coalition and the cold prospects of the ‘Cock’ crowing alone in the next assembly election.
The NCP Nagaland state at its executive meeting held at NCP office, Dimapur, on Monday unanimously resolved to pull out from the DAN coalition citing numerous ‘betrayals’ from the major DAN partner, the Nagaland People’s Front (NPF).
Later, interacting with a section of the media in his home residence at Nagarjan (Kuda village), NCP Nagaland president and secretary general NCP (Northeast), Neiba Ndang, confirmed that the NCP state, with full approval of the NCP central leaders, has finally distanced itself from the DAN.
“We had all respect and regard for the DAN coalition, although we lost two of our legislators, and we tried our best to maintain the coalition spirit,” Ndang said.
The party however disclosed that the final straw came during the last by-election to Aonlengden assembly seat, which NCP said the NPF went alone with its candidate and never consulted DAN partners.
“For so long we have tolerated and tried to keep up the coalition spirit. In any major policy matters or decisions, they (NPF) should at least consult with their coalition partners. But in the case of 26 Aonglengden AC by-elections, there was never a consensus among the DAN partners. We were never consulted or informed beforehand about the candidate,” the state NCP president said.
On the other hand, Neiba said that without consulting DAN partners, the NPF declared their own candidate and tagged it as “DAN consensus candidate.” “This is a clear-cut indication that then DAN partners are being sidelined,” he said and hinted that the NCP, being a national party has its own set policies and programmes, can survive “with or without” a regional party.
State NCP General Secretary Miatho Krose who along with NCP state member of Political Affairs Committee, Chonben Yanthan, were present during the press briefing, reminded that the DAN government should own up to whatever “negative or otherwise” decisions the government had taken up till the present, since the NCP was never taken into confidence.
With the NCP pull-out, DAN government is now reduced to NPF government as there are no other political allies the NPF can take into confidence. Even the five Independent MLAs in the current state assembly have been reduced to “associated members” of the NPF.
The NCP Nagaland state at its executive meeting held at NCP office, Dimapur, on Monday unanimously resolved to pull out from the DAN coalition citing numerous ‘betrayals’ from the major DAN partner, the Nagaland People’s Front (NPF).
Later, interacting with a section of the media in his home residence at Nagarjan (Kuda village), NCP Nagaland president and secretary general NCP (Northeast), Neiba Ndang, confirmed that the NCP state, with full approval of the NCP central leaders, has finally distanced itself from the DAN.
“We had all respect and regard for the DAN coalition, although we lost two of our legislators, and we tried our best to maintain the coalition spirit,” Ndang said.
The party however disclosed that the final straw came during the last by-election to Aonlengden assembly seat, which NCP said the NPF went alone with its candidate and never consulted DAN partners.
“For so long we have tolerated and tried to keep up the coalition spirit. In any major policy matters or decisions, they (NPF) should at least consult with their coalition partners. But in the case of 26 Aonglengden AC by-elections, there was never a consensus among the DAN partners. We were never consulted or informed beforehand about the candidate,” the state NCP president said.
On the other hand, Neiba said that without consulting DAN partners, the NPF declared their own candidate and tagged it as “DAN consensus candidate.” “This is a clear-cut indication that then DAN partners are being sidelined,” he said and hinted that the NCP, being a national party has its own set policies and programmes, can survive “with or without” a regional party.
State NCP General Secretary Miatho Krose who along with NCP state member of Political Affairs Committee, Chonben Yanthan, were present during the press briefing, reminded that the DAN government should own up to whatever “negative or otherwise” decisions the government had taken up till the present, since the NCP was never taken into confidence.
With the NCP pull-out, DAN government is now reduced to NPF government as there are no other political allies the NPF can take into confidence. Even the five Independent MLAs in the current state assembly have been reduced to “associated members” of the NPF.
