Congress to NPF: ‘Communal’ in Manipur, ally in Nagaland

Dimapur, March 3: Continuing with political mudslinging, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today accused both TR Zeliang and Yitachu of getting their ‘facts wrong’ while comparing the Manipur situation on the use of central forces.

To buttress its claim, the NPCC, through its Media Cell, said that the entire central BJP leadership including the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had been relentlessly accusing Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh of not using adequate number of central security forces to stabilise the situation.

On the entire ULB election fiasco and the aftermath lawlessness, the NPCC attributed it to the ‘indecisiveness and mismanagement’ on the part of TR Zeliang and the NPF which, it alleged, did not hesitate to betray the institution of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council for narrow political gains.

The NPCC demanded that the NPF should clarify about whether it approved TR Zeliang’s claim that he was dislodged as CM because he was from a ‘minority tribe’ in Nagaland. It said that the ‘minority tribe’ remark negated the tall claims of the NPF about TR Zeliang’s ‘so called’ supreme sacrifice.

The NPCC also said it was a pity that a regional party like the NPF had allowed the BJP-RSS to dictate its ideology and policies.

‘NPF should realise that by pointing accusing finger at Congress, their three fingers pointed back at them are accusing them of succumbing to BJP-RSS high command that is hell bent on destroying our culture and way of life,’ the NPCC stated.

Further, the Congress stated that the flip-flop of the NPF campaign in Manipur was not helping ‘our brethrens either.’ It termed ‘ironic’ that NPF spokesman Achumbemo, during the recent election rally in Tamenglong, had urged people not to vote for communal BJP.

‘NPF should explain how the BJP becomes communal party in Manipur while they have no inhibitions to be together in Nagaland,’ it added.