Dimapur, Sep. 6 (EMN): The Liezietsu-led group of Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) has alleged that Member of the Lok Sabha Neiphiu Rio ‘impersonated’ Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu during a recent event.
The media cell of the NPF central issued a press release on Wednesday. ‘The Naga People’s Front is shocked to read in the media the sheer audacity of former Nagaland chief minister and Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio impersonating the president of NPF Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu and attending the 2nd conclave of the North East Democratic Alliance at the national capital yesterday,’ the press release stated.
The “shameless and unmitigated insolence” in “projecting himself as a person he is not at the national level,” and the “gall and temerity he has to impersonate the president of the NPF” is “obnoxious, revolting and incredible,” the note stated.
The press release declared the NPF party to be a “responsible political party duly registered with the Election Commission of India and functions according to laid down constitutional norms, and not at one’s whims and fancies.” The office bearers of the party, including the president, are appointed according to the provisions of the constitution of the party, it stated.
‘And as far as the party and the ECI are concerned, the president of the Naga People’s Front is Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu, and not a charlatan unable to decide whether he is of the Democratic Progress Party or would like to cling on to the political party from which he has been suspended,’ the press release stated. The group asserted further that the “unconstitutional government headed by TR Zeliang is on borrowed time and surviving through the mercy and largesse of the BJP government at the centre.” But the courts of law, the press release went on, ‘shall not be so generous...'
“The unholy duo of TR Zeliang and Rio, having failed to convince the legislators supporting them to merge with the BJP, may not find it very comfortable to convince the BJP High Command that everything is honky dory, and the bigger charade they have to pull off – convincing the Courts that they can fool everyone all the time – lies ahead of them in the weeks to come,” the press release added.
