Our Correspondent
Kohima | July 14
“We have elected you not to live in Craziranga,” conveyed the Naga People’s Front (NPF) Central Youth Wing today, while staging a peaceful rally here today against those MLAs camped at Kaziranga for not discharging their duties as assigned, creating hardship to the public.
Various placards were held out during the rally which started from NPF Central Office till the Raj Bhavan. Later, in a representation submitted to Governor of Nagaland, the NPF Central Youth Wing said that the Supreme Court has laid down that a Governor cannot have the freedom to determine when and in which situation can he take a decision at his own discretion without the aid and advice of the Chief Minister and his Council of Ministers. On the present situation in Nagaland, the youth wing said that “there is no withdrawal of support from the coalition which means that the present Council of Ministers still enjoys the confidence of the House.”
Regarding the dissident group of legislators, the NPF Central Youth wing stated that “this group of legislators is primarily comprised of NPF legislators, which makes it evident that the issue is essentially between the NPF legislators with the Chief Minister and NPF legislators with TR Zeliang. Therefore, the issue is purely an internal matter of the NPF party.”
As such, it reasoned that “it is highly irregular” that the Governor should interfere in the internal matters of a political party. It therefore called upon the Governor to act “only on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers.” The representation further noted that there has been a “genuine move to facilitate amicable reconciliation within the NPF party with the party deciding to revoke the suspension of party legislators and the MP Lok Sabha.”
“And when there is this such genuine attempts to resolve the differences within the party, it will not be proper on your part to create any stumbling block or to put a wedge between the groups in the party which could result in irreparable damage to the reconciliation moves,” it urged.
