Dimapur, July 3 (EMN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) responds to the criticism of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) about the regional group allegedly using honorific statements often as a facade for ‘illegal activities’ as charged by the Congress.
The party issued a press release on Monday attacking mainly the NPCC’s President K Therie.
Straight off the statement, the NPF referred to the claim “it was he (Mr Therie) who single-handedly revived the dying cock party and propelled it to power in 2003.” The NPF said it deserves a standing ovation “because of its utter ridiculousness.”
“The NPCC would like to have us believe that we are blessed with a political Samson in our midst capable of achieving the impossible, bestowed with amazing powers and what have you. One can only imagine if his Delilah would be the very party he presently heads,” the press release stated.
If statements of “historical, political facts” are considered by the NPCC as “tirades” against a leader and “a payback of ungratefulness”, the press release stated, the NPF can only submit that it would rather be ‘brutally frank with the truth than be with lies and flattery.’
The NPF continued the tirade: ‘And having threatened others with his “popularity, political principles and unwavering commitment”, this honourable gentleman, while being in the NPF party, started to hob-nob with Congress leaders clearly showing his political principles and unwavering commitment to the party he belongs to.’
As for the popularity of the leader that the NPCC ‘seems to be obsessed with,’ the NPF’s press release remarked, ‘his exit from the cabinet and the party went un-noticed and un-mourned until someone pointed out the absence of a massive ego in the party. Ever since, he has been noticed from time to time, and all these times, for all the wrong reasons.’
In regard to the NPF using the term “supreme sacrifice,” the regional group declared that it “seems to be absolutely alien to the Congress party, it is no surprise that the NPCC has found it hollow because what can be said of a political party whose presidential candidates resort to vandalism, arson and exploding of bombs at the Congress Bhawan?”
The NPF then referred to the Congress’ “usage” of the word ‘un-mandated.’ ‘It is threatening to cause mass nausea because former Congress Prime Ministers Mr Narasimha Rao and Dr Manmohan Singh were never considered as un-mandated when they were sworn in to office without they being members of either House of the Parliament,” the NPF declared.
“We are also not aware that when they were sworn in to office while being unelected members of the Parliament, the Congress party functionaries put on gunny bags, smeared their faces with ash and hung their heads in shame that there were no suitable or capable Member of Parliament to take over as the Prime Minister.”
The NPF claimed that the ‘selective amnesia’ of the Congress party was on ‘expected lines’ because all these decades “the party had been taking the people of the country for a ride forcing itself to believe that the people were enjoying the ride.”
