Dimapur, Feb. 19 (EMN): Terming his recent ‘vitriolic utterances’ about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a ‘classic example of political dementia,’ the Nagaland unit of the BJP on Mon. reminded the president of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu that the two parties' decades-old alliance goes way back to the Janata Party government in 1977.
“It is indeed upsetting and painful to see tall and respected regional political leaders stooping so low as to go back on their own words just to score some brownie points during election time. And all through the years beginning with the 2003 pre-poll alliance between the NPF and BJP, which was repeated in the 2013 assembly election till last Christmas, the NPF president who happily wielded his authority on the strength of the NPF-BJP alliance had not a word of complaint against the BJP,” a BJP statement read.
However, the NPF chief has ‘grown myopic, forgetful and green with envy’ after the BJP forged alliance with the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), it stated. “BJP existed in Nagaland and contested in Wokha and Mon districts in 1987. Why rake up the issue just now and not during those years? Is it because of the new alliance?” it wondered.
On Liezietsu’s repeated call to ‘protect the Christian faith, culture and identity at any cost,’ the BJP stated that ‘no court has found BJP workers involved in working against the Christian faith.’ It stated that the BJP was ‘equally committed to protecting Naga Christian faith, culture and identity.’
