Recent developments suggest that the relevance of small regional parties is at stake. In that kind of situation where you are compelled to clank your begging bowl very loud for New Delhi to hear, you are actually inviting the Central governance to the state. Besides the dependency factor, the negligible size of representatives in the Parliament is one cause that is paving room for the wanton exercise of power by the Centre in certain states. In that scenario, accommodative politics becomes the principal theme for such state governments.Today, our expression is our lamentation. The ideologues of Naga People’s Front (NPF) have injected a strong Naga national fervour in the party but sadly the elegance of the party in the Naga world that was winning the hearts of men, women and children with its verve and dash all this while, is losing its charms. This is to say that the ideological moorings are fast getting diluted.
Regional political parties are formed to serve the regional interests. Due to pernicious ideology of the bigger parties the urge to have regional parties crop up. By this logic, when regional parties are too accommodative they affect own ideological concord.
Today the unfurling situation lays us different roadmaps. This is to say that certain situation compels small regional parties to hobnob with the bigger political parties with compromising approach. We have been witnessing this in the country.
Solely driven by the survival politics the NPF is losing its charm (of being the Naganess or Naga centric) as accommodative politics is becoming too accommodative. Accommodation of parties whose ideologies contradict the Naga interest is damaging the (Nagas) emotional linkage with NPF that has been developed over the years.
NPF is considered by many not as a mere political party. It is one of the principal agents of the Naga movement. The need to have a strong Naga based regional political party is in fact a matter of necessity as long as the Naga political issue is not settled. This is the basic premise for the formation of the party. However, we have a different story altogether today.
