EMN
Dimapur, March 20
Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) President K Therie has said that the opposition-less government has been talking about Framework Agreement for long without knowing the contents indicating sordid state of affairs, and asserted that people at present want peace, security and development.
In a press release, Therie said, “If they don’t talk, they fear people will think they have betrayed because they have come together in the name of political solution. Yet when they talk, people understand that they don’t know what they are talking about. They keep talking without opposition but they don’t know where the solution lies.” He said, “If MLAs don’t talk with a sense of achieving, who in Nagaland should be talking with a sense of achieving? If MLAs are talking without authentic information and if MLAs are talking wishful thinking, who should be presenting the facts to the people?”
“The old saying goes: People can be fooled once but not twice. Whoever said it has perhaps underestimated the people of Nagaland for we are fooled for many times and many years.”
Therie maintained that Parliamentary Working Committee (PWC) has been looking for support from national political parties to which Modi had called the Naga Peace Accord while some called it a Framework Agreement.
“All the political parties have assured of support provided it is good for the people. National leaders have asked them if they know the contents of the Framework Agreement, they could not reply.”
Madam Sonia Gandhi said in clear terms to Chief Minister, MP Neiphiu Rio and PWC delegates, that the Congress will support any solution that is good for the people but cannot give a blank cheque.”
Stating that leaders talk for an early honourable and acceptable solution, Therie said, words honourable and acceptable sound nice which everybody has adopted. “In our view nice words do not qualify for solution. We have to make a list of things that are honourable and acceptable to the people. In democracy, the aspirations of the people are the final law.”
Recalling the Plebiscite of 16th May 1952 which was for sovereignty, he said, some people think there is a need for a referendum.
“I don’t know, may be in good time. For now, people aspire for peace, safety, security, freedom, one tax, one government and development.
We have a dream to deliver the above aspirations. We shall not talk for the sake of talking nor beat around the bush. In our endeavour to solve the political problem, we will present a list of things that we believe are honourable and acceptable to the people.”
