\n\u201cIn the coming Lok Sabha election, DAN will have a consensus candidate and Rio will be authorized to choose his own candidate and NCP will give full support,\u201d Sangma told mediapersons here on the sidelines of his meeting with NCP Nagaland State leaders and workers.
\nHe also said he was happy with the performance of DAN government and lauded Rio for \u201cvery successfully managing the coalition.\u201d \u201cWe are very close and in touch with each other,\u201d Sangma added.
\nOn the other hand, the NCP leader blamed both the previous NDA government and present UPA government for failing to bring in any substantial development in Nagaland during the ceasefire period.
\nSangma said as Speaker of the Lok Sabha during the time when the process of ceasefire was initiated with the NSCN (I-M) under the prime ministership of Deve Gowda and IK Gujral, he too had been actively involved in the process.
\n \u201cToday it is more than a decade since cease fire agreement was agreed upon with the central government\u2019s slogan \u2018peace for development.\u2019 And so I had expected a lot of development in Nagaland,\u201d he said.
\nSangma said ten years was a long period wherein Government of India had the opportunity of proving the \u201cdifference of peace time\u201d and convincing the people of Nagaland what peace could bring.
\nHe said it was unfortunate that both the then NDA government and present UPA government had failed to show the difference between \u201cinsurgency time and peace time\u201d in terms of development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"