In a continuing tirade with NPF, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) renewed its attack on NPF for justifying the appointment of Khriehu Liezietsu as advisor to CM with cabinet status “as reward for his supreme sacrifice” .
NPCC media cell said use of the work “supreme sacrifice” liberally has now become the “facade for all illegal activities of NPF”.
NPCC said it was for the “first time in any political history, we are hearing about the son making supreme sacrifice so that his father continues to be chief minister and the father rewarding his son to be his advisor after performing rites of so called supreme sacrifice at NPF,CEC meeting.”
While reiterating that it has no issues in the father-son combine running the affairs of the NPF as their personal fiefdom, NPCC however said the affairs of the government was a separate issue. NPCC alleged that “there can be no greater case of nepotism than Dr. Shürhozelie appointing his unmandated son, who had recently resigned as legislator to pave way for him.”
Rather than taking pains to explain about parliamentary norms and procedures on the ascension of Dr Shürhozelie as chief minister, NPCC said that the NPF should instead be ashamed that there was no suitable or capable legislator among the 48 party legislators to take over as the chief minister. “This shows the depth of leadership crisis in NPF that had to fall back on an unmandated leader to give them some breathing space,” it added.
On the issue of NPF-BJP alliance, NPCC said, despite NPF saying that both NPF and BJP were natural allies and recalling their relationship back to 1977, it said the alliance was based more on convenience of petty politics.
NPCC said the opportunism of BJP was evident despite NPF humiliating them in May 2009 when two BJP legislators were forced to resign and merge with NPF after Congress led UPA retained power at the centre and for which, NPF had offered unconditional support. NPCC said that the most amusing spectacle was of BJP calling “NPF 200% corrupt” and NPF labelling “BJP as anti-Christian party” in recent times while cohabiting with each other.
It further pointed out that the tirade against NPCC president K. Therie was a payback of ungratefulness. NPCC said it was Therie “who single handedly revived the dying Cock party and propelled it to power in 2003.”
NPCC said the dropping of Therie from the cabinet, despite being the main architect of NPF-DAN coming to power in 2003, was the handiwork of some ungrateful people and power mongers in the NPF. It said these elements felt threatened by his popularity, political principles and unwavering commitment on a host of issues concerning the people of Nagaland.
In the light of the above, NPCC advised NPF to remember that resorting to attacks on a leader who was solely responsible for giving NPF-DAN a political breakthrough will not have any takers other than exposing their petty mindedness and ungrateful heart.
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