Dimapur, Sep. 4 (EMN): Continuing the vitriolic exchange of words between the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the Naga People’s Front (NPF), the former on Tuesday stated that the NPF ‘out of frustration and a sense of repentance’ had picked up the ‘hypocritical habit’ of telling the People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) government and the chief minister ‘to do exactly’ what it failed to do during its four years ‘infamous tenure.’
According to a statement from the NDPP, the PDA was busy correcting the ‘mis-governance’ of the past four years of the NPF. “In its despair to be noticed, the NPF should not accuse the NDPP of whining particularly when it was the NPF which woke up from its slumber after 13 days to attack the chief minister's Independence Day speech without any valid reasons except desperate attempts to create controversies where none exist.
“...the NPF's compulsive habit of whining is no lesser than its ingrained trait of telling others to do what it could never do when it was in power except sleep over issues,” the statement read. it also stated that the appointment of PDA members needs no further elaboration and the fact that they enjoy no financial or executive power is clear from the start. “On the contrary, the NPF is dared to admit the fact that they too appointed party leaders with equivalent ranks cabinet ministers of.
“The fallacy of the NPF is laid bare by its own statement that the NDPP should start focussing on providing roads and helping affected people. The NPF's selective amnesia is once again evident from the fact that the present condition of roads and bridges in Nagaland are at its worst due to the inaction of the NPF government of the past 4 years as the NPF was in a state of narcolepsy.
“The NPF needs to be reminded that even though it is in opposition, it did nothing for the people in distress. Only after the NDPP on 28th August 2018 asked the NPF to enlighten the people what it has done for those affected by natural calamities in the state, its leader of opposition on 31st August 2018 suggested that the commissioner and secretary, Nagaland legislative assembly may deduct (INR) 50,000 each from the salary of the NPF MLAs to donate to the chief secretary's relief fund,” the NDPP pointed out.
Without a doubt, it stated, in a democratic set up it is the duty of the opposition to outline the areas where the government needs to put in efforts or more attention. “However, since the NPF is so proud of its achievement of having an opposition-less government in the last four years of the 12th House, it has perhaps forgotten the way a good opposition functions in a democratic system of government!
“It is not a matter of pride when the opposition which was at the helm of affairs just a few months back is trying to do right the wrongs they committed during their reign by pointing their tainted fingers at the chief minister and the PDA government. The people are the judge of the matter and it will bode well for the NPF to analyse the matters at hand with a fine toothed comb before accusing the government of the day of the lack of governance or mis-governance which was clearly evident in the last four years of the NPF government,” it stated.
According to The NDDP ‘the overzealous nature of the NPF without shedding its redundant and regressive outlook yet striving to remain relevant in the face of progressive governance has only made it more irrelevant.’
“The NPF should first come clean on the educational qualification of its leader Mr. TR Zeliang who misled the entire country by repeatedly lying on affidavit that he was a graduate instead of trying to find fault with others. Until and unless the NPF comes clean on the fake educational declaration of its ‘chief minister in waiting’, it has no moral authority to point fingers at others,” the statement read.
