Dimapur, August 27 (EMN): Attempts to revive the prospects of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) in state politics – currently lying in shambles without a single representation in the assembly – are already underway with eyes on the coming Nagaland assembly elections scheduled early next year.
The Congress in Nagaland has announced that Rahul Gandhi, the vice-president of AICC, would be coming to Nagaland in the “later part of October” this year to address a “state level convention” to kick off “our assembly election campaign”.
The vice-president would be accompanied P Chidambaram, former union Finance minister and a senior Congress leader, according to an NPCC press release on Sunday.
It also informed that the NPCC delegates, led by president K Therie, ‘had series of meeting at Delhi to finalise strategies for the upcoming assembly elections that is due in February/March 2018’. “On 18/08/2017, the delegates met Congress president, Sonia Gandhi and had over 30 minute’s discussion on the action plan prepared by NPCC.
“The PCC delegates also met Motilal Vora (AICC treasurer), Dr CP Joshi (general secretary AICC I/c NE states) and Dr K Jayakumar (secretary I/c Nagaland) to fine tune the action plan that incorporated the suggestions and directives of the Congress president”, it stated.
The NPCC team also met Rahul Gandhi on August 21 last, and had ‘an hour long meeting that finalised the action strategies for 2018 assembly elections’, it stated.
“The main theme of Congress will be to provide clean governance with zero tolerance towards corruption. The party reaffirms its commitment to defend freedom of faith, culture, customs, social practices and our land. We will not allow Nagaland to be destroyed by communal forces in connivance with regional forces as our ancestors were proud warriors and have paid with their life and blood to protect them.
“We do respect people of other faiths and beliefs so also, we expect them to respect our faith, beliefs and way of life. We will go on an extensive campaign to call upon the voters of the state to vote out the BJP-RSS and their comfort political parties”, it stated.
The Congress also announced that it would be fielding 60 candidates in the elections. “NPCC reiterates that Nagaland and its people are equal partners in the union of India as provided in the Constitution and therefore shall not allow the BJP-RSS to hold our people and the state to ransom by taking advantage of regional parties who have no principles or ideology to withstand the onslaught of their communal and divisive agenda”.
