Taking a jibe at NPF-led DAN government, the NPCC Friday said the extension of Disturbed Area Act (DAA) under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958 by the Centre for another year “clearly proved” that union government did not “approve the NPF-led DAN Govt.’s often repeated claim of peace in the state.” The media cell of the NPCC, said the extension of DDA also implied that Centre did not trust state government’s reports on law and order. NPCC pointed out that DAA was enforced within a radius of 20 Kms along the Indo-Myanmar border in the past while the Act has now been extended to all of Nagaland with effect from June 30,2011 as reported in a local daily. NPCC said people of Nagaland have the right to know as to whether the state cabinet had recommended the extension of DAA. It also demanded that state cabinet come out clearly with its stand. NPCC said that last year, when DAA was extended the NPF had acted in a “knee-jerk reaction” by accusing the UPA government of ignoring it. NPCC asked whether the absence of a knee-jerk reaction this time reflected the action of the DAN cabinet? The NPCC also drew attention to Rajya Sabha MP Khekiho Zhimomi’s press statement, published in local dailies June 16, wherein he accused Nagaland Congress of going against the wishes of the people when DAA under AFSPA, 1958 was extended in 1995 when the Congress was in power. The NPCC said Zhimomi claimed that as then Independent MLA, he opposed the Act by withdrawing support to the government and as a consequence, “paid a heavy price politically”. It said if Zhimomi thought the declaration of the DAA along the international border then was against the interest of the Nagas, what about the declaration of entire Nagaland under DAA this time? The Congress said Khekiho should repeat the history as he had promised in his statement on June 16.
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