Seeks intervention of central leadership
Dimapur, June 4 (EMN): Seeking to redress the current crisis in the Nagaland unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) has recommend instating some of their leaders and members who were reportedly removed from the organisation.
The PAC issued a press release to the media on Saturday with emphasis that the organisation’s party leadership intervene “immediately” and
settle the issue to “save the party.”
The press release informed that an emergency meeting of the PAC was conducted on June 3 in Kohima town.
The meeting was to ‘take stock of the latest political “development / crisis” within the party’s Nagaland unit besides “the emerging political development” in the state of Nagaland.
After thorough deliberations a number of resolutions were adopted by the committee, the press release stated.
The committee noted the crisis in the party: ten of the 11 district presidents reportedly wrote to the party’s high command to remove the president (the reason for which they have already submitted to the national president) within May 30; that they would take further action in case of “non-compliance,” the PAC stated.
“Now that the district presidents and youth party leaders have come together and they are on a dharna for removal of the party president,” the PAC stated.
“In view of such a serious development in the party and looking at the forthcoming general election which is coming very soon, it is felt that central party leaders intervention is immediately required. Hence the central party leaders are requested to immediately come and settle the issue and save the party.”
The second resolution stated that nine senior party functionaries were “being dropped without any consultation with the state office bearers and the party legislators which is unconstitutional and dictatorial in nature.”
The issue was discussed in the last meeting of the PAC on May 25, the committee stated, during which the president was asked to review the decision and reinstate them “to their original positions because they are all senior dedicated party workers.”
“But till today the president has not complied with the recommendations of the PAC,” the committee remarked. Therefore, it stated, ‘once again the PAC recommends that all the nine senior party functionaries should be reinstated with immediate effect.’
Further, the committee noted that the president had recently suspended three senior party members ‘without any reason and without any consultation with the state office bearers and the party legislators simply on the pretext of shouting against party leaders.’
This is “totally unfounded and concocted version of the party president,” the committee stated.
Therefore, the PAC has recommended that the suspension order be immediately revoked for the best interest of the party “because their participation and contribution in the party is indispensable in view of the forthcoming general election.”
Likewise, the committee noted that the president had issued an order to shift the unit’s head office from Dimapur to Kohima “without any prior consultations in the state executive committee meeting and without any consultations with the party legislators.”
Therefore, the PAC stated, in the best interest of the party, the order should be kept in abeyance with immediate effect.
“PAC recommends that henceforth, there should be proper consultations and coordination within the party functionaries and the party legislators,” the press release stated. “And that no major decision such as shifting of party head office from Dimapur to Kohima or any major decision should not be taken without proper discussions and consultations with the state executive committee meeting and without proper consultation with the party legislators.”
The PAC’s statement was appended by its convenor Dr. TM Lotha.
