Responding to the accusations by the Naga People\u2019s Front (NPF) press and media bureau, that Congress leaders were \u201cagents of outsiders\u201d, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) hit back at the \u201cfalse propaganda\u201d and accused NPF of trying to \u201choodwink the people\u201d as NPF leaders had had nothing to offer to people after nearly 11 years in power. <\/p>\n
In a press release issued on Tuesday, NPCC media cell said the NPF media bureau was parroting around with the only phrase available with it, as it was ignorant about what its leaders were scheming in order to further \u201cexploit and make a mess of governance\u201d.<\/p>\n
Asking the NPF media bureau on what it meant by \u201cagents of outsiders\u201d, NPCC said NPF as a regional party, was more concerned with issues outside Nagaland by creating a mess of political situation in Nagaland while enjoying funds provided by the centre meant for development of the state.<\/p>\n
The \u201cNPF obsession with Article 371 (A)\u201d at the start of its third innings, had more to do with \u201cgreed of sharing the spoils of oil exploration\u201d and to tighten its grip on power by usurping the powers of the Hon\u2019ble Nagaland Governor, said NPCC.<\/p>\n
NPCC media cell said the NPF\u2019s belated rediscovery of the constitution cannot ignore the utterances of its minister Imkong L.Imchen, who, on several occasions, \u201cdenounced the 16 Point Agreement\u201d by conveniently forgetting that he occupied a ministerial chair as a result of that agreement. <\/p>\n
It also accused Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio of having spoken out against Article 371(A) on past occasions by blaming it as \u201cthe main hindrance towards development of the state\u201d. <\/p>\n
While asserting that the Congress has no \u201chesitation in consulting the people and tribal hohos on issues of importance\u201d, NPCC however said that the NPF government\u2019s approach in calling for repeated consultative meetings to debate Article 371 (A) and then announcing its decision to ignore the office of the Governor on Rules of Executive Business (REB) \u201cwas totally wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n
NPCC reiterated that views gathered in consultative meetings can be debated in the assembly before making any final decision \u201c and not the other way round\u201d as resorted to by the NPF.<\/p>\n
It said the NPF\u2019s assertions that NGOs and civil societies were invited to consultative meetings to solicit views was \u201can added insult\u201d. <\/p>\n
NPCC pointed out that the meetings were more of imposing \u201cthe divisive agenda of the chief minister to derive a false mandate under the guise of protecting the rights of the people\u201d. <\/p>\n
Further, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee said the reading of prepared script by the chief minister and paper presentations by \u201csome bureaucrats\u201d for a conclusion \u201chas demeaned\u201d the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) \u201csince laws are made inside the assembly and not in some convention centres.\u201d<\/p>\n
NPCC reiterated that the NPF government was heading for a collision course with the government of India \u201cby repeatedly raking up the debate on Article 371 (A)\u201d and rushing into a \u201cblind alley with the so-called mandate arrived at consultative meetings\u201d to force their way through. <\/p>\n
The \u201cconfrontational stance\u201d of the NPF government would even jeopardise the constitutional safeguards provided to Nagaland under Article 371 (A) for which the NPF government led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio \u201cwill be held fully responsible\u201d, cautioned NPCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Responding to the accusations by the Naga People\u2019s Front (NPF) press and media bureau, that Congress leaders were \u201cagents of outsiders\u201d, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) hit back at the \u201cfalse propaganda\u201d and accused NPF of trying to \u201choodwink the people\u201d as NPF leaders had had nothing to offer to people after nearly 11 years […]<\/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-170714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170714","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=170714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}