Dimapur, March 19 (EMN): Nagaland State BJP has hit out at the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) over allegations on secularism, corruption and tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
In a hard hitting statement, State BJP termed the NPCC rhetoric as acute desperation for the Congress party’s grand losses across the country and the Northeast due to its past misrules. State BJP issued this press release in response to NPCC president which was published in some sections of the local dailies.
State BJP general secretary (Media) and spokesman, Jaangsillung Gonmei said the desperate attempt of NPCC president K Therie to do a bit for his party’s next year’s prospects by singing the wrong tunes about BJP would not make any dent as an election propaganda. He said criticising BJP had always been the Congress’ escapist method to camouflage its own faults, weakness, non-secularism, corruption and misrules to shield its leaders from their disgruntled workers.
On the secularism aspect, BJP has accused NPCC as non-secular and communal party. It accused Congress party of projecting secular image during elections only to get votes, after which they become “sickular” or non-secular and rule with fundamentalist vigour destroying the country culturally and regionally dividing the nation.
“When it is out of power, it describes itself a secular centrist party. But when it is in power, it is in reality a leftist-centrist party with a bent for religious fundamentalism,” it alleged. BJP said Congress party has no political alliance with religions, religious fundamentalist groups and professes to be secular, but when opportunity arises, it takes sides and gets involved deeply with non-secular fundamentalism.
To substantiate its claim, BJP said former Congress Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi permitted Shilanyas in Ayodhya while Narashimma Rao permitted demolition of Babri Masjid. Besides, it said prominent Congress leaders such as Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and HKL Bhagat were identified with the violence of 1984. It added that Congress party workers and leaders across religious lines figured in reports on the Bombay riots of 1992-93, the Gujarat violence of 2002 and the Muzaffarnagar violence of 2013.
It said during the Congress led UPA government in 2012, there were 640 incidents of communal violence with 98 deaths and 2,487 people injured. In 2013, 479 incidents of communal violence took place with 407 people dead injuring 1,647 people including 200 injured policemen. It said 2013 recorded the highest incidents of communalisms and deaths due to the efforts of the Congress to thwart the BJP from coming to power.
It has termed it ironical that NPCC president talked about ‘empty churches,’ eroding cultures, traditions etc. It stated that if NPCC president Therie is concerned about ‘empty churches’ because of black money through BJP government, he should immediately start a marathon confession for all the black money of decades of Congress rules in the country and particularly in Nagaland that have ushered in a money centric corrupt tribalism, nepotism society weighing down its political as well as electoral culture.
BJP went on to state that Congress misrules in the past had made all the Nagas backward spiritually, ethically, culturally unable to grab modernity. “Congress’ money centric politics have created generations of greedy materialistic and therefore non-practicing Christians harbouring divisions on tribal, regional, village lines,” it alleged.
Meanwhile, it said BJP and its allies are committed to build a strong nation throughout the length and breadth of the country by accommodating every features and aspects of language, culture, religion, regions inclusive of all classifications of minorities and ensuring to make them co- exist harmoniously and equally for an equity development to take place on the principles of “Sabka Saath, Sabka ka Vikas” or “Together with all, Development of all”.
It also reminded the NPCC president that BJP did many things in eight years what the Congress government could not do for the Naga political issue in 50 years. It pointed out that BJP government under the Prime Minister of Atal Behari Vajpayee on October 28, 2003 described the ‘uniqueness’ of Naga political struggle. Again, it was the BJP Prime Minister Modij who reached a ‘Framework Agreement’ of 3rd August, 2015.
It, therefore, questioned the logic of K Therie in his remarks to comment that BJP wanted the Nagas to suffer.
Further, Nagaland BJP stated that NPCC president cannot hold the BJP responsible for his party’s weaknesses and failures adding no voters would buy lies to put his Congress party in power.
