In response to the signed letter by 18 NPF legislators addressed to the NPF legislature party leader, T.R. Zeliang which went viral on social media, the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) has spurned the “offer” for a coalition of regional parties (NDPP-NPF).
In response, NDPP through its media and communication committee has described the offer as “absurd and incomprehensible” since NDPP has a pre-poll alliance with BJP and where the alliance campaign was addressed at Tuensang by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
NDPP said after election other parties such as JD (U), NPP and Independent joined the alliance after declaration of results on January 3,2018 to form the Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA).
NDPP said it remained “forever grateful” to its partners and therefore the talk of “regional coalition” was out of question especially when the NPF had “openly rejected the consultation meet of all stakeholders on 31st January 2019, as well as rejecting the provisions of Article 371A as was endorsed by all tribal hohos.”
NDPP also reiterated that its leaders have “never met” with any of the NPF leaders nor ever intended to as the party (NDPP) respected post-poll commitments and especially when PDA was in a much stronger position on completion of one year on March 3,2019.
To rub it in, NDPP said the offer for a regional coalition only served to remind what it had always stated “that the opposition camp is wrought with desperation, mistrust and frustration and that it was only matter of time before the dam would burst”.
It said the move by the 18 NPF legislators has only exposed the disunity among them which was a well known face too.
NDPP admonished the “oldest regional party in the north east” for behaving in “such a cheap manner especially the hon’ble MLAs by resorting to create confusion” among the people so as to divide the PDA.
NDPP also said the “cheap gimmickry employed by the opposition” was not only disgusting but also an insult to the mandate reposed on them by their respective constituencies and asked the NPF to behave as a responsible party befitting a political party.
Hitting out further, NDPP said NPF ought to realise that it was rejected by the people during the recent general elections as the mandate was with the PDA government.
NDPP asked NPF not to indulge in “all possible kind of mischief” to dislodge the present dispensation.
NDPP also reminded that it was not too long ago when people witnessed the “intra party political drama” in the NPF during the last four years of DAN-III and including the present crisis.
It expressed amusement that “such an unpredictable political party” with strife and internal problems and incapable of providing a stable government was “trying to dislodge a firm and united alliance that has the mandate of the people of Nagaland.”
NDPP said that though it was well aware of the internal problems of the NPF, yet it never commented on it but instead, it was shocking that instead of appreciating this gesture, the NPF was trying to create confusion by involving NDPP, which has no hand in the present NPF crisis.
“The self-destruct button of the NPF seems to have already been pressed and it is only a matter of time before we see the implosion”, said NDPP.
The party further assured people of Nagaland that the PDA coalition was “intact and stand united” in its commitment to the people and therefore, such “mala fide intentions of a desperate opposition party to try and dislodge the alliance “will instead only strengthen PDA.
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