EMN
Dimapur, November 19
Scoffing at the State Congress party for being confused with the word ‘sub judice’, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) asked the Congress functionaries to decide whether to take up the qualification issue of Chief Minister with the police, with the court, with the Raj Bhawan or with the local media.
“Rather than the NPF confusing the people with the simple statement and explanation that the matter is sub judice, it would appear that a section of the Congress party functionaries are totally confused about the not-so-legal term “sub judice” and seem to be in need of a dictionary to look up the meaning of the term,” a statement issued by Press Bureau, NPF today said.
“On hind sight, it is very obvious that there is a sore loser behind the whole staged drama: It is a truth universally acknowledged that in any contest there is a winner and a loser. It is also a truth that there are two kinds of losers – good losers and bad losers – and everyone knows that good losers take their loss in a sporting manner and prepare for another day to take up the next fight, while bad losers remain sour and foul all their lifetime and simply refuse to accept their loss. They keep on grumbling, whinning and cribbing about their loss for everyone to see with the vain hope that some Good Samaritan would come their way and lend them a shoulder on which they can sob their eyes out.
Honourable leaders though they all are, it is crystal clear that there just could be someone who had lost in the last general elections against the present Chief Minister, and embarrassed to come out in the open to speak out loud, is hiding behind the shadow of others and preparing all half-baked works such as arranging Police cases which could not be entertained by either the Police in the rank of the Superintendent of Police or the Court of law which ruled that the writ petition to direct the SP and the OC concerned to register the FIR, is “devoid of merit” and threw out the case at one go! As is known by all, an angry man can be a very unreasonable man and a very unreasonable man can influence any organisation he belongs to, including political parties, to take very unreasonable decisions thereby risking the angry man to become the very hazard that organisations normally distance themselves from lest, they, the organisations become laughing stock of the erudite masses.”
The statement said, “As has been stated some days back, after the High Court (Kohima Bench) had thrown out the writ petition pleading for the court’s intervention to direct the SP Kohima and the OC North Police Station, Kohima to register the aforementioned FIR, some individuals have approached an esteemed First Class Judicial Magistrate thereby rendering the issue sub judice.” Therefore, if the DCC Peren or any organisation is resolved to stand by the law of the land, it should also be resolved to follow the law of the land and differentiate from what is trial by media and what is a matter considered to be sub judice.”
The NPF said, “Henceforth, let it be known to one and all that the Press Bureau of the NPF will wait for the outcome of the learned Magistrate’s decision and no reply shall be made till legal conclusions are drawn.”
