BJP using last remains of Vajpayee for petty political gains — NPCC

Dimapur, Aug. 24 (EMN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today said the immersion of ashes belonging to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in some select rivers across the country has been turned into a political circus by the BJP and more so by BJP Nagaland.

In a press release, the NPCC media cell said the BJP’s sudden affection for the former PM after his demise is just a ploy to extract some cheap political mileage, as the former PM was consigned into “political oblivion after 2004 election defeat and rendering his political thoughts and actions irrelevant through divisive agenda and hate politics”.

“The last rites are performed by the family members for peace of the departed soul but PM Modi and the BJP have usurped the last remains of former PM Vajpayee and are using it for petty political gains,” the NPCC stated.

Coming closer to home, the NPCC strongly ridiculed the activities of BJP Nagaland, particularly its state president displaying eagerness to please their ‘communal masters’ by following and observing rituals that are alien to the Naga way of life and termed such activities as an insult to all right thinking Nagas.

Saying that the Nagas have been struggling for the past seven decades to protect their unique history, the NPCC said that the ‘all out attempt by the state BJP to assimilate themselves into a new alien culture as dictated by their high command is a severe assault on the aspirations of the Nagas and their future’.

It said that respecting others belief and culture should not be at the cost of compromising ‘our very own belief and culture that forms the core foundation of our existence as individual and as tribe’.

“The zealous conduct of the State BJP President in propagating the Hindutva culture of the RSS in the state which is even despised by majority of Hindus across the country therefore needs to be seriously condemned,” the release stated.

Saying that the congress remains the only barrier against the onslaught of Hindutva forces in Nagaland, the NPCC appealed to the people from different walks of life to come forward and join hands together to prevail upon “the present situation of hopelessness created by elected leaders who compromised everything for the love of power and money”.