Dimapur, February 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today reiterated its demand for the imposition of President’s Rule and called for an early election in Nagaland.
“Although President’s Rule is the last resort, the present situation forces Congress to prefer President’s Rule rather than be ruled by traitors and vultures,” NPCC said in a press statement issued by its Media Cell.
Ridiculing the political twists and turns unfolding in the state in the past two days or so, NPCC said that the shifting loyalty among the legislators was proof that “there is no MLA who stood by ideology, principle or ethics.”
“There is huge trust deficit among themselves with nobody above suspicion. Their actions have greatly embarrassed Nagaland and the people, majority of whom professes to be Christians,” it added.
NPCC further opined that TR Zeliang and his cabinet’s collective decision taken after January 30 tripartite agreement on ULB election will go down as “greatest betrayal document” and no coalition members in Democratic Alliance of Nagaland are “free and clean from the betrayal.”
“Rather than singling out TR Zeliang and abandoning him, the NPF government should collectively own moral responsibility and gracefully step down for betraying the people of Nagaland,” it pointed out.
It also reminded that keeping in view “public upsurge in the past and interest of the people” the NPCC “without any political prejudice” had urged state government to postpone the ULB election on January 12.
However, in the whole episode, the NPCC claimed that the NPF-DAN has proven to be “senseless and numb” by completely failing to understand the feelings and sentiments of the people and exhibited their instability.
In this connection, the NPCC reiterated it demand for President’s Rule stating that the present dispensation “have lost moral support of the people and have no moral right to rule.”
