Dimapur, March 2 (EMN): Naga People’s Front (NPF) has put weight behind the claim of former chief minister TR Zeliang on how Congress chief minister Ibobo Singh has been clinging to power using all sorts of Central and State security forces available at his disposal turning out the whole State into a war-zone like environment.
NPF Media and Press Bureau was responding to the criticism made by the Nagaland State Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on the speech of former chief minister TR Zeliang during an election rally in Tamenglong on February 28.
“The truth is bitter, and it is more so for the Congress party when the former chief minister stated the truth how Congress chief minister Ibobo Singh has been clinging to power using all sorts of Central and State security forces available at his disposal turning out the whole State into a war-zone like environment,” NPF statement said.
If the handling of the ULB elections was a fiasco as the party claimed, NPF questioned what can be said of the Congress party which passed a resolution supporting holding of ULB elections with 33% reservation of seats for women, printed their manifesto but when there were no takers for their party tickets in the ULB elections, withdrew from the scene quietly and maintained a deafening silence all throughout.
Stating that Congress party had “tactfully handled the simmering situation” as the Media Cell of the party termed it, NPF said NPCC should now clarify to the people of the State as to what extenuating circumstances compelled them to act so hypocritically in the first place, and also how their resolution to support and participate in the ULB elections was turned down by their High Command.
On the allegation that the DAN legislators had abandoned the former chief minister, NPF reminded that the former chief minister was compelled to step down for the sake of peace and tranquillity not from within the Assembly or the government, but from outside forces which resorted to ‘all sort of violent and morbid methods for the political benefits of a few vested interests.’
NPF said if the Congress party is so keen to respond to the political speeches of the NPF leaders in Manipur, they should go to Manipur and campaign for their party candidates. Terming it ‘unfortunate’ that they have not been invited to address even a single election campaign by their counterparts in Manipur, it said they have no other option but to resort to armchair politicking thereby making themselves atleast heard.
