Dimapur, Jan. 23: The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has suggested that there could be no “hurry” to holding the municipal polls, for which, it stated, “Why not postpone few months.”
The Congress issued a press release on Monday lamenting that the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) had failed to “understand the issues and values concerning the people of Nagaland.”
“It is sad that NPF cannot understand the issues and values concerning the people of Nagaland... In the present crisis, the issues are sensitive enough since it concerns with the feelings and sentiment of women folks and tribes organizations along with their culture and social practices,” the NPCC explained. The Congress declared that it was standing with 'one-third' reservation for women. Nonetheless, it also holds regard for tribal organizations and “their feelings equally.”
“What is the hurry, if people have waited for decade, to develop consensus, why not postpone few months. No doubt money is money important but learned Members must be aware that feelings and sentiments are priceless,” the NPCC suggested.
“Opposition less government has made amendment to NM Act 2016 and therefore, it was presumed that stake holders were taken into confidence. The agitation proves that 60 MLAs did not know the content of amendment, neither they are in control.”
The NPCC expressed faith in consensus for the issues raised by the tribal organizations and “not through confrontation.” Obedience to law is a duty of every citizen and enforcing the law of the land should be the last resort, it stated.
“Forcing nomination, evacuating nominees to unknown place, changing nomination place and extension of nomination filing date have already marred the charm of ULB election. The continued agitation by tribe organizations will be a long drawn war. We do not believe any ULB will be able to function peacefully without people’s support and co-operation,” the NPCC stated.
The NPCC also claimed that the “agitation is out of NPF infighting.”
“It only proves everything is not well in the NPF,” it stated. “Moreover, the NPF has no moral right to point fingers at others when its own president has miserably failed to convince his own village people and his own tribe hoho from boycotting ULB elections,” the Congress remarked.
The Congress also remarked that the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland had stated in 2009 that because of the Naga political problem, the “urban election was not conducive and has used ULB bodies as platform to reward its party workers for long.”
What, teh Congress queried, has changed in the political problem? “Liars and thieves have no room in our society; soon people will show them the doors,” the press release added.
