Dimapur, Jan. 12 (EMN): The NPF supremo, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu on Saturday termed the Union cabinet’s approval of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, and its subsequent passing in the Lok Sabha, as “a nude exposure of the brute force applied by the NDA government at the Centre which had shown total disregard to the sentiments of the people of the country, particularly the people of the Northeast.”
In a statement issued on Saturday, the NPF president said: “It sounds good when the Nagaland cabinet resolved to request the Centre to review and re-examine the Bill in spite of the fact that their chief minister had already declared not to oppose the Citizenship Bill on national screen. It may be a logic too simple for the people to understand.”
The Naga People’s Front, he said, was against the Bill “from the very beginning and we will never agree to such act which opens the gate of population politics to suppress our rights of living in our own land.”
According to him the Nagaland MP of Lok Sabha is a member of the NDA “who supported the Bill in passing it.”
“The Nagaland MP of Rajya Sabha is a member of NPF who will go against the Bill, however, insignificant a single vote among many. We will do this to clarify our stand in clear term. Come what may, we will take this stand to defend the rights of our people because this controversial Bill is not only threatening our future but a move to wipe out the indigenous people of the whole North East, a challenge too costly to explain at the moment,” the veteran politician said.
