\nThe NPCC, in a press statement issued by its media cell, asserted that the CMO\u2019s projection of Nagaland in poor light by saying Nagaland state was the \u201ccause for promulgation of AFSPA in the whole northeast\u201d should be condemned by all Nagas.
\nIt stated that AFSPA was promulgated in different states and extended from time to time under their own given situations and not as stated by the CMO.
\nMoreover, the opposition maintained that the CMO has also failed to answer as to why the DAA, which covered 20 Kms belt earlier, was extended to the entire state this time.
\nIt also criticized the CMO for not elucidating as to whether the official letter dated June 9, 2011 of special secretary to the government of Nagaland L. Singsit in response to the MHA\u2019s letter dated May 25, 2011 was the cabinet decision. NPCC questioned the CMO as to why it was \u201cafraid to make public\u201d the copy of the decision if the state cabinet had not recommended it as the CMO claimed.
\nPointing out that the extension of DAA in the entire state has proved wrong NPF\u2019s claim of Nagaland being \u201can island of peace,\u201d the NPCC said threat and intimidation, rapes and molestations, rampant extortions, kidnappings for ransom, daylight robberies, killings, sky-rocketing prices etc. were Further NPPC claimed it was obvious that the \u201cimmeasurable sufferings of the public\u201d prompted the government of India to exercise its wisdom in extending the DAA to the entire state.
\nMeanwhile, the NPCC also lashed out at Rajya Sabha MP Khekiho Zhimomi stating he should \u201cget his facts straight\u201d. It asserted that the DAA was first promulgated not in 1995 as stated by the MP, but in 1972 after the attempt on the life of late Dr. Hokishe Sema, the then chief minister of Nagaland near Kohima.
\nWhile stating it was unfortunate that a person of his (Khekiho) stature could term the prevailing Nagaland situation as peaceful, the state congress said it may be peaceful to \u201cprotected people like him\u201d but it was \u201ctotal chaos\u201d for the common people.
\nIt further stated that citing artificial peace under the garb of ceasefire as the sole reason by state government to oppose the extension of DAA was not accepted by the government of India as sufficient ground to lift the Act, keeping in view the prevailing situation that affected the day-to-day lives of the common men.
\nThe NPCC said NPF-led DAN government should do its homework first in containing the law and order problem before questioning the wisdom of the UPA government. <\/p>\n
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