Eastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, March 10: In the aftermath of a bruising 2018 Nagaland election in which his party failed to register a single win, a beleaguered K Therie on Saturday resigned from the post of president of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC).
Confirming this to Eastern Mirror, Therie informed over phone that his resignation was an outcome of the Congress party drawing a blank in the recently concluded Nagaland assembly elections.
“I have resigned from the post on moral grounds owing to the election debacle. But I am still with the Congress and will remain with the Congress,” said Therie. He informed to have forwarded his resignation to the executive committee of the NPCC.
“I had offered my election manifesto for a God-fearing party but people have chosen corruption and voted against my political vision and therefore I have come to a decision to resign on moral responsibility,” he added.
However, a PTI report quoting NPCC sources said since Therie was directly appointed by the AICC, his resignation cannot be channelised through the NPCC and he has to submit his resignation letter to the AICC.
The Congress had contested in 18 seats out of the total 60, but did not win any one of it.
The Congress had released a list of 23 candidates on February 6. But five of them later took back their nomination citing fund shortage, the sources said.
The party had been in the opposition in Nagaland since 2003 when it failed to form the government despite being the single largest party.
