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The NPF office in Mon town locked and nailed shut on Friday.[/caption]
Dimapur, May 10 (EMN): In what appears to be an act of open defiance against the leadership of the Naga People’s Front, the 19 suspended leaders of the NPF’s Mon division on Friday responded to their recent sacking by locking up the office of the NPF Mon division.
As skeletons continue to tumble out of the NPF cupboard, the dissent members from Mon district, in a joint statement issued on Friday, revealed that they had served a notice of non-cooperation against the division’s president and the general secretary on April 22 last.
They also alleged that their mass suspension was initiated without consultation or show cause notice being served, “which is against the NPF party constitution.”
As such, they stated, the “drastic step” of locking the party’s division office had been taken out of anguish over the NPF’s decision to sack them.
According to H Yanboh, one of the suspended vice presidents of NPF Mon division, they had decided to lock the office to express discontentment over their suspension.
He accused the president and the general secretary of NPF Mon division of failing to give directives in selecting/choosing the candidate during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections in Nagaland.
He also accused the duo of ‘mishandling/misusing party funds provided for election expenses.’ Even after the casting of votes (MP election), the president and the general secretary failed to convene a meeting and collect the report on the votes cast, he alleged.
Against this, he said, they had written a letter to the central executive office, expressing non-co-operation to the president and general secretary of Mon division on April 22.
However, the party’s central office had decided to suspend the leaders suspended “without any explanation call or show cause notice”, as required by the constitution of the NPF party, he said.
