Dimapur, June 20 (EMN): A miffed Naga People's Front (NPF) president, Dr Shürhozelie Liezietsu, has asserted that he is not ‘a president on bail.’ The veteran hit out at the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party's media committee for calling him a 'liar and a president on bail' in the media.
Making a 'few comments' in a 'rejoinder' received here on Wednesday, the NPF president challenged the NDPP's committee to prove to him the 'two serious character assassination allegations of calling him a liar and a president on bail.'
"By calling me a liar, they cannot change the mindset of the Naga people to support Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 or go against integration issue," Liezietsu stated.
Saying that he was ‘not a liar and cannot become a liar just because the rival party calls him a liar,’ Liezietsu stated, "Rather I do not want them to be habitual liars."
The NPF chief asserted that the people of Nagaland were ‘aware that NDPP filed FIR against him just before the recently concluded bye-election in Nagaland on certain grounds.’
"Yes, I have said that ‘we have freedom of religion in Nagaland as per the provision of Article 25 of the Constitution of India; but in some BJP ruled States, this freedom is no more,’" the veteran politician stated. He also declared that he would defend the Christian faith in Nagaland and for which an appeal was made to his party’s leaders 'to tell the people the truth what the Christians have been facing in the country today.'
While asserting that the NDPP wanted to arrest him and had filed ab FIR against him, Dr. Liezietsu wondered why they ‘failed to arrest him.’ He claimed to ‘stand for truth’ and that ‘jail would not worry him.’
He assured to continue to tell the people the danger of anti-Christian violence in the country "so that people of Nagaland will be on our guard to avoid the dangers..." He added that he would be happy to give an opportunity to the NDPP ‘to jail me if they like it’ and that nobody can stop him from talking about it.
