NPCC asks CM, HM to clarify on “anti-Naga”

NPCC has said that the NPF’s habit of raising an entirely different non-issue against the pertinent issues of public importance raised by opposition Congress has rendered any debate “unhealthy and meaningless.”  The NPCC reminded that it had demanded to know from the chief minister and home minister to spell out what they meant by the policy and programs of the Congress which they considered as “anti-Naga”?

NPCC media cell today said instead, the NPF had “cleverly avoided answering the questions”, but reiterated that the Congress would  pursue by posing the same questions till the chief minister and his home minister provide satisfactory answers.

Further, the Media Cell   pointed out that home minister Imkong L. Imchen had repeatedly been making statements as if he was the only person championing the Naga political issue. In the light of Imchen’s “repeated tirades” against the Congress on Naga political issue, the NPCC said it was not out of place for the Congress to question his own contribution. “Political issues should be fought politically in public,” it added.

The NPCC also hit out at the NPF for its “double-talk” on Naga political issue saying that on one side it kept on appealing to all Nagas including the opposition Congress to work together for peace, while on the other side, the home minister cried hoarse that NPF was the only political party that could bring peace. NPCC said that the tenor reached a “dizzy-high” during the recent  by-election in 26 Aonglenden A/C.

Further, the NPCC said while the NPF talked so much of Article 371 (A) of the Constitution on one side, on the other side they were talking as though they were not members of the State Legislative Assembly. “They decry 16 points agreement on one side but enjoy its fruit on the other side. The NPCC reminded that the government of the day “had sworn to protect the integrity of the State as its duty and responsibility; ” therefore, the NPF-DAN cannot go on fooling and testing the intellect of the educated people.

The NPCC said that the “so-called facilitating role” of the NPF-led DAN government on Naga political groups has been on status-quo ante for the past eight years. It maintained that the facilitator’s role has no defined road-map. NPCC said that the government of the day was only playing a reluctant role as facilitator “to hood-wink the innocent public to stay in power”. Further it asserted that the NPF-led DAN government has nothing to claim as its achievement on Naga political issue and the semblance of peace arrived at between the different Naga political groups.