NPCC members during a candlelight vigil in Kohima.
- DIMAPUR — The Congress party in Nagaland held
statewide candlelight marches on April 25 at 6 pm to express solidarity with
the families who had lost loved ones in the recent terrorist attack in
Pahalgam, Kashmir.
- A press release on Saturday stated that the Nagaland Pradesh
Congress Committee (NPCC) spearheaded the event in Kohima, with widespread
participation from District Congress Committees (DCCs), frontal organisations,
various departments, cells, and other branches of the party throughout the
state.
- Marches took place in Kohima, Dimapur, Kiphire, Mon,
Zunheboto, Peren, Phek, Wokha, Longleng, Mokokchung, and Tuensang, it informed.
- Participants lit candles and observed a moment of silence to
honour the innocent victims of the attack and offer support to the grieving
families.
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- NPCC leaders, party workers, members of the public, and
well-wishers gathered in significant numbers, united in their call for peace
and justice.
- “The candlelight march also served the purpose of sending a
strong message of condemnation against the dastardly act of cowardice and
violence perpetrated by the terrorists,” it stated.
