SVC: All procedures followed, NDPP says

Dimapur, June 6 (EMN): The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) has responded, with 'amusement,' to criticisms from the Nagaland Legislative Assembly's opposition about the appointment of a former magistrate as the state's vigilance commissioner. The NDPP's media and communications committee issued a press release on Wednesday stating that the opposition leader TR Zeliang had no moral authority to 'question the integrity and capability of the appointee in any manner.' "It is amusing to see the complaint letter of Mr. TR Zeliang, Leader of Opposition regarding the appointment of Mr. Mayang Lima as the state vigilance commissioner," the NDPP declared. "It has been reiterated time and again that all due procedures were followed by the government in the appointment of the state vigilance commissioner. No procedures have been bypassed or overlooked." The person in question, the NDPP stated, is a "renowned legal luminary" of whom the Naga people 'should be proud of him on reaching such a revered position in the interest of transparency and accountability of the government’s day to day functioning.' Mayang Lima has had an unblemished track record in the course of his profession and service in the government, the party stated. In this instance, TR Zeliang has no moral authority to question the integrity and capability of the appointee in any manner. Rather, the party declared, the leader of the opposition has been "producing contradictory affidavits year after year thereby insulting the Constitution of India and the laws of the country." The party also criticised TR Zeliang for having claimed to be a graduate when having 'failed in all subjects.' The NDPP has sound redress instead: 'Instead of pointing fingers at unblemished and distinguished persons, the leader of opposition should apologize to the people of the state and his constituency for misleading everyone time and again over the past couple of decades for bringing immense shame to the Naga when the whole country came to know that the erstwhile chief minister had been giving wilful false affidavits on fake educational qualification without any semblance of a guilty conscience.'