Dimapur, Feb. 16 (EMN): Despite being in alliance for 14 years, the president of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu has claimed that the party “never encouraged the BJP to set its foot into our land.”
A press release from the party on Fri. informed that Liezietsu had made the statement during an election rally for NPF candidate R Tohanba at Shamator. He ‘warned the Naga people not to gamble with their faith, culture and identity.’
According to the NPF's statement, Liezietsu accused the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party of marrying the BJP as well as being “on the verge of giving birth to BJP in our land.” He claimed that the NPF was the ‘only regional party in the state’ to represent the aspiration of the Naga people.
Liezietsu said further that the NPF's manifesto was practical ‘and not a visionary book or a mere wish-list.’ It concentrates mainly on the uplift of the rural people, he said.
“God must be weeping when Naga leaders were selling the rights and the freedom of the Naga people for their sheer greed power and money,” the statement quoted him as saying. During the election rally, the two working presidents of the party, Apong Pongener and Huska Yepthomi, also spoke.
