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Kohima, Aug. 5 (EMN): On Sunday morning, posters showing the photograph of Nagaland Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) secretary for organisation, Ananta Narayan Mishra, and allegations against him were found pasted on the walls near the Kohima War Cemetery area in Kohima town.
The poster had four specific accusations that were levelled against the party’s leader: “1. Murder of BJP Nagaland; 2. Morally corrupted; 3. We don’t need dictatorial vendetta go back; 4. Don’t use divisive and partisan policy in BJP Nagaland.” Also, caricatures of provocatively dressed women were photoshopped alongside Mishra’s image.
Becasue the incident came about not long after a major restructuring of the party’s organisation in the state had taken place, it was suspected to be the handiwork of disgruntled party members.
When contacted, the BJP’s Vice President Peter Rutsa said that the act was a direct attack on not only the party’s leader but on the organisation too. He informed that the party has filed an FIR with the Kohima police on the direction of the party’s president, Temjen Imna Along.
Rutsa said that the party was taken aback at the messages the posters carried. Political protests within a party or between different parties are not new to Nagaland, he said. But, he said, it was striking that the posters bore no identity of those behind the attack, nor had anyone owned up to it. He informed that the posters seemed to have been printed from a commercial printing press. The matter has been conveyed to the police, it was informed.
The state unit’s President Along, the minister for Higher and Technical Education, could not be contacted. It was learnt that he was out of station.
However, other party leaders
Eastern Mirror contacted remarked that it could be the handiwork of rival party(ies). Nonetheless, they did not rule out that it could be the action of disgruntled party members.
