NPCC highlights DAN’s ‘dubious achievements’

Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) Saturday said that in the last 12 years, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) led by NPF witnessed a phenomenal change for worse culminating into the present financial crisis. NPCC stated that the DAN has repeatedly plundered the state exchequer under various pretexts in the form of Machiavellian programmes and policies which were devised to benefit only the ruling class while the common man reeled under severe hardships and difficulties.
Road Shows: NPCC said that while the roads of the state are at its worst conditions without any signs of improvement despite generous funding by the centre running into thousands of crores, the DAN Government introduced the “Road Shows” in 2009 to cover all 11 Districts in Nagaland by deviously coinciding the Road Shows with the major festival of the tribe inhabiting a particular district.
Hornbill Festival: NPCC also said that the festival was now stretched into 10 days of “pure merrymaking” activities burdening the already depleted state exchequer. The irony of the festival is that the term ‘Dry State’ ceases to exist during this festival. Surprisingly, the Church which so vociferously defends the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act, 1989 chooses to remain a mute spectator making one wonder as to whether VVIPs and revellers drinking banned liquor in a so-called dry state during festivals was justified while the common man drinking liquor at other times was a grave sin in the eyes of the Church.
State exchequer as private account: NPCC also accused the government of misusing centrally sponsored schemes especially the Central Flagship Programme that did not fall within the purview of the state budget.
In the name of extending financial assistance, public money has been loaned out to various individuals though there are no provisions to advance personal loans from scheme funds, said NPCC.