{"id":163814,"date":"2014-03-08T01:21:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T01:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/03\/08\/npcc-approves-pusa-for-ls-poll\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T01:21:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T01:21:17","slug":"npcc-approves-pusa-for-ls-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/08\/npcc-approves-pusa-for-ls-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"NPCC approves Pusa for LS poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Former Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president and ex-MLA K.V. Pusa\u2019s name has been approved as the Congress Lok Sabha candidate for the polls slated on April 9.<br \/>\nNPCC president S.I. Jamir informed media persons Friday after a closed door meeting, that the party\u2019s Search Committee recommended Pusa\u2019s name for approval by the AICC. <br \/>\nHe also disclosed that the NPCC had received applications for Congress ticket from Dr. Roland Lotha, Chubatangit Jamir, P. Longang Konyak and Sulanthung H. Lotha. <br \/>\nIt may be mentioned here that the DAN has already selected and declared chief minister Neiphiu Rio as their consensus candidate for the lone Lok Sabha seat. <br \/>\nNPCC president S.I Jamir, CLP leader Tokheho Yepthomi and K.V Pusa would be leaving for New Delhi.<br \/>\nPusa had resigned as convenor NPCC Search Committee (Lok Sabha) on March 3 and K. Konngam Konyak MLA was appointed as convenor Search Committee.<br \/>\nAICC sources from Delhi confirmed that they had also received information regarding K.V Pusa\u2019s candidature. \u201cThe decision (endorsement) of the AICC would be positive\u201d, sources said.<br \/>\nWhen asked about NPF\u2019s appeal to all parties for a consensus candidate, the NPCC president maintained that the party declined because the appeal came after the NPF announced its candidate.<br \/>\n&nbsp;NPCC president said people were concerned with rampant corruption and mismanagement of the NPF-led DAN government. \u201cNPF will fight with money, but Congress will fight on issues\u201d, he said.<br \/>\nCLP leader and&nbsp; MLA Tokheho Yepthomi claimed that the NPF-led DAN government created history when it failed to provide works programme (for 2013-2014) and gave employees plan holiday, officially or unofficially, commemorating 50 years of statehood.<br \/>\nHe also said though the NPF government blamed Congress for non-release of central fund, it did not respond to the centre\u2019s insistence on how Rs.700 crore was spent during 2012-13. <br \/>\nHe also said NPF-led DAN government also failed to produce utilization certificates supposed to be submitted by September 2013 and later extended to January 2014. <br \/>\nTokheho said all these resulted in non enhancement of state budget allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president and ex-MLA K.V. Pusa\u2019s name has been approved as the Congress Lok Sabha candidate for the polls slated on April 9. NPCC president S.I. Jamir informed media persons Friday after a closed door meeting, that the party\u2019s Search Committee recommended Pusa\u2019s name for approval by the AICC. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}