Dimapur, Oct. 5 (EMN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) has dismissed the claim made by the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) that TR Zeliang had recently failed to lure the BJP into an alliance, as ‘nothing more than the whining of a party whose downfall is imminent.’
A statement from the party on Friday alleged that the NDPP has ‘in its attempt to garner support advocated all sort of concocted tales imaginable.’ It accused the NDPP of attempting to ‘drive a wedge’ between Zeliang and NPF chief Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu.
“To whom did TR Zeliang said (sic) that the tenure of NPF president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu is going to be over soon and that new arrangement will take place…when and in which platform did TR Zeliang mention that the BJP leadership authorised him to form a new government?” it asked.
The NPF stated that no amount of efforts to put Zeliang ‘in poor light’ would work. “During 2015 crisis related to INR 78 cr. money-laundering issue, Neiphiu Rio and Abu Metha convened a press conference and handed over fake documents of Singapore Bank where the name of G Kaito Aye and Noke Wangnao were used and later the innocent two leaders were made to apologise before the people. If at all, the ‘long hands of the law’ (sic) has anyone to apprehend, then it is Neiphiu Rio and his men.
“If the PDA government is truly stable and firm as claimed, why does the NDPP not have trust and faith in its own coalition partners like the BJP, JDU, NPP and Independent? The perverse mentality of the NDPP is an open secret for the Naga public to see and understand because TR Zeliang is free to meet any pre-poll alliance partners, if he so desires.
“However, fearing that the NPF would do so, the NDPP party has started hurling allegations out of anxiety in becoming a minority party. On the allegations of what TR Zeliang said to the BJP leadership or what the BJP leadership have said to him is not for the NDPP but the BJP party to clarify,” it stated.
Rather it claimed that the Rio-led NDPP has been seeking the support of few NPF legislators ‘to form a coalition government while luring them with cabinet berths and assurance to sponsor their by-elections.’
“(The) leader of the NPF legislature party, TR Zeliang has absolutely no hand in the mistrust or incertitude that exists within the NDPP-led government and whatever fate PDA government meet sooner or later, is but its own creation (sic). As for the NPF Party, it is prepared to be in the opposition and play the role of a constructive opposition party,” it claimed.
