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DIMAPUR, JANUARY 18
The NPF headed by Noke Wangnao has said that ‘the minority Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang’ has returned from Delhi ‘red faced’ and without any answers after assuring his supporters that he would meet the Prime Minister and the Union Home minister in order to get the support of the Government of India. “However, he was denied any appointment with any of the leaders and rather he went and met BJP leaders pleading for their support,” said the NPF (Noke) in a statement today. It said the stand of the BJP has been clearly specified in the BJP’s press release which was published in the media on January 18. “In his embarrassment of having being denied appointment by the Prime Minister and the Home Minister, Shri T.R. Zeliang, sounded more like a BJP spokesperson giving telephonic information to sections of the local media over phone,” it added.
“We also condemn and reject the efforts of Shri T.R. Zeliang who has been speaking to the leaders of the civil societies and mass based organizations to pressure the Honorable Governor to call a special session of the Assembly,” it stated. According to the NPF (N), TR Zeliang has even been sending text messages to civil society leaders to go and meet and pressurize the Governor from his personal mobile number. It stated that he has stooped to such low levels of politics that he has even begun to undermine the civil society leaders of Naga society. “It is indeed unfortunate that he has tried to politicize the civil societies, however we are confident that the respectable leaders of Naga civil society and the mass based organizations will not undertake any such action in the greater interest of neutrality and remaining apolitical. The minority Chief Minister should not undermine the Naga organizations in his own personal interest,” the statement further said.
According to the NPF (N), the ongoing problem is an internal matter of the NPF and does not need any session of the assembly at this juncture. “Rather, the minority chief minister should immediately step down as he has lost the popular support of the majority of the NPF and DAN MLAs,” it demanded.
