Dimapur, Jan. 19 (EMN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has on Fri. brought in the religion card in the ongoing state assembly elections campaign by ridiculing the probable alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party(NDPP) as a 'direct insult' to the Christian communities.
"The coming together of NDPP and BJP to form an alliance and fight the upcoming assembly election as stated in some local dailies is a direct insult to the sentiments of the Christian communities. As BJP is known for persecuting Christians, no Christians should vote to persecute Christians or in favour of NDPP-BJP alliance. The state political parties aligning with BJP are no less then Judas Iscariot," stated the media cell of the party.
The party claimed that it had very recently made an understanding with the NDPP for the upcoming polls since the latter had declared that it would not join communal forces.
"As the NDPP till the other day before Neiphiu Rio joined was very loud and clear that they will not join the communal forces and will stand by the secular ideologies, we had agreed to have certain understanding in the coming election either in the manner of alliance or merger with INC," the Congress party stated.
Further, it blamed the leadership of the NPF of the past three terms for bringing in the BJP to the state and allowing the latter to 'dictate every sphere of government functioning'; the regional party and its leaders are responsible for giving the communal party a 'foothold' in the state.
It claimed that the Congress party alone was 'waging the battle against the combined communal forces.'
