Dimapur, April 4 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has accused Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and his colleagues of “shamelessly parroting the language of communal forces led by the BJP-RSS whose hidden agenda if voted to power with clear majority subscribes to the theory of one nation, one culture and one rule of law.” This agenda, the NPCC said, “threatens the secular fabric of the nation where religious minorities will be at the receiving end and more so with a state like Nagaland dominated by Christians who are religious minorities in the larger context.”
A press release issued by NPCC Media Cell stated that the current Lok Sabha elections have been more of a battle against the communal forces represented by the BJP whose ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) directs every move from its Nagpur headquarters. It mentioned that the RSS was banned and its leaders jailed in the aftermath of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination by the then Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for its “divisive and communal agenda.” The RSS leaders were released only after giving an undertaking to abstain from political activities and focus only on socio-cultural activities, it added.
NPCC further accused Chief Minister Rio of “literally” abandoning his people after promising too much to achieve nothing in 11 years of his “misrule” known more for massive corruption and failed governance. Moreover, Rio and the NPF has become the enemy of the state since the ideology of BJP-RSS is in contravention with the culture and beliefs of the people of Nagaland, NPCC asserted. “Rio has also miserably failed to answer the people on his new found mentor (BJP-RSS) commitment on issues of anti conversion laws; building of Ram Temple in Ayodhya; Total ban on cow slaughter; Uniform Civil Code and abrogation of Article 370 in J&K.”
The statement also said that the BJP at the centre has failed to bring out its election manifesto for the coming parliamentary elections “which goes to prove that the BJP has nothing to offer to the nation except to impose its communal and divisive agenda that harbors enough potential to disintegrate the nation.”
With the state in dire financial situation and total breakdown of governance on all fronts, NPCC affirmed “it will be suicidal for the people to elect a communal party candidate in the form of Rio who is conveniently charting an escape route from the mess that he had generated as a result of his misrule as Chief Minister for the past 11 years.” As countdown for polling begins, NPCC claimed that people in other parts of the country have realized that Congress is the only party that can offer a stable government with enough inclusive policies that does not discriminate any religion, race, culture and region.
Therefore, NPCC asserted, the prospects of Congress led UPA coming to power for the third consecutive time “is a foregone conclusion while the fortunes of communal BJP after the initial euphoria generated by empty rhetoric of Modi has nosedived with open infighting among its leaders and discontentment among the cadres becoming more of a routine than exception.”
