NPF Kohima unit flays ‘character assassination’; demands evidence from NDPP

Dimapur, June 22 (EMN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) of Kohima division has strongly condemned the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) for calling its president, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu a ‘liar.’
Alleging that it is a serious character assassination, the division demanded the NDPP to produce the evidence of their allegation.
The division reminded the NDPP that ‘the NPF president has at no point of time in his by-election campaign spoken or goes against any religion or used any inflammatory speeches which will affect in promoting feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will and creating disharmony between different communities on the ground of religion as accused by the NDPP.’ It justified stating that the president had only spoken about the Article 25 which safeguard every religion and urged to defend the Christian faith.
However, it stated that the NDPP leaders went to lodge a complaint letter to the Election Commissioner of India and subsequently file an FIR in police station.
A communiqué received here on Friday from the division president, informed that the division held an emergency meeting on Friday June 22 and deliberated on various issues.
During the meeting, it was stated that the division has seriously viewed about the statement made by the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to the media on June 12 on Naga integration and Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, and rejected claimed made by the chief minister.
“Integrating the Naga inhabited areas and desire of the Naga people to live under one single administrative umbrella is not the only wish-dream of the NPF party, but it is the wishes of the Naga people since time immemorial when we go the Naga history,” the communiqué stated.
The division questioned how can the chief minister can ‘simply just announced that integration is not possible at this juncture while the Naga political dialogue is still going on and the solution is yet to arrive at between the GoI and the Naga national groups.’
Citing the CM statement “the PDA government will not oppose the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016,” the division said it is embracing that ‘CM can make such decision knowing the ground realities how Nagas has been dominating by the illegal immigrants in its own soil.’ By being the chief minister, the division asserted that ‘he can never trade with the future of the Naga people.’
The division pointed out that despite the introduction of ILP and Article 371 (A), Nagaland has become the most vulnerable state for illegal immigrants and ‘the Citizenship Bill is nothing but simply a multiplication table to increase more illegal immigrants into our land.’
The NPF Kohima division demand the chief minister to clarify it to the Naga people on the two pertinent issues and not to divert the issue any longer.