Mokokchung, February 26 (MExN): In what could greatly annoy the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), Home Minister Imkong L Imchen during a recent public function in Chuchuyimlang (Mokokchung district) said that the DAN government makes a difference between the “Nagaland Congress Party” in the state and the “Indian National Congress” at the Centre. His logic is simple – the Congress party in Nagaland state and in Delhi is quite different.
He went a step ahead and said that it is a ‘shame’ for anyone to walk around saying that he is from the ‘Congress’ party in Nagaland these days. ‘The Nagaland Congress party and the Indian National Congress party is different…that’s why we always use the word Nagaland while describing the Congress party as Nagaland Congress Party and the Congress at the Centre as Indian National party,’ said the Home Minister at a programme at Chuchuyimlang after laying the foundation stone for the RD Block office.
Saying that is a ‘shame’ for anyone to say that he belongs to the Congress party, Imkong L Imchen asserted that the ‘Nagaland Congress Party’ is the one who is asking the Indian Congress Party at the
Centre not to send money to the Nagaland government saying that ‘we have been in the opposition for so long’. However, he asserted that the Indian Government still gives funds to the Nagaland government because there is ‘justification’ for these funds, like the various developmental works being done in different parts of the state. He said that the NPF led Government would bring in more funds since it is justified and since it is “government to government” dealing and that the Government at the Centre knows that the funds are ‘justified’.
He ridiculed the Nagaland Congress party pointing out that it is anti-people to ask the Indian Congress Party at the Centre to stop the sanctions and funds meant for Nagaland. He termed the alleged demand for stopping of funds by the ‘Nagaland Congress Party’ as a “shameful thing”. Taking another jibe at the Congress party, the Home Minister said that the ‘disunity in the Nagaland Congress party’ is even giving sleepless nights to the NPF party. He cited the instance of Congress MLA I Imkong being expelled from the Congress and the ‘Centre’ revoking it. ‘The backbiting and back stabbing in the Congress Party is giving us sleepless nights,’ said the Minister.
