Dimapur, November 21 (MExN): Slamming the statement issued by the NPF party as “misleading and contradictory”, the NPCC termed as “sheer farce” the NPF leaders’ rhetoric on ‘peace, unity and solution of Naga political problem’. In an immediate rejoinder to the NPF’s statement that was published by local dailies on November 21, the NPCC reiterated that “despite the confusion and mess created by the NPF party,” the statement made by the Chief Minister, who had said, ‘A section that is not part of the solution cannot deny that they are part of the problem’, was “contradictory and discriminatory in nature.”
“It is obvious fact that the Chief Minister took initiative in propounding the concept of equi-closeness which had created lots of commotions in the DAN conglomeration even in the past. But in spite of such dissension in the DAN fraternity and even within NPF’s family the equi-closeness policy was vigorously implemented which ultimately brought some section of people too close to NPF/DAN while distancing from other section of the people,” R Paphino, Chairman, of the NPCC Media Cell, stated.
The NPCC added that the Chief Minister’s statement in the NPF General Convention was “nothing but a mere reiteration of his pet political concept ‘equi-closeness’, which had bolstered chasm and hegemony amongst the section of our society today.” The CM’s remark “truly reflected his mind because out of what is in the mind is spoken out by a person” and this further “reflected his bitterness on a section of people whom he thinks are not co-operating with him or works according to his thinking line of equi-closeness,” the NPCC persisted.
“Therefore, in the light of his actual state of mind and subsequent ground implementation for the last few years, sharp division and bitterness had come to fore in our society. Hence, the rhetoric of NPF leaders for peace, unity and solution of Naga political problem impregnated with such sinister state of mind/design is a sheer farce and self contradictory in every aspect,” the NPCC added in the statement.
Further, the statement that the NPF had made in calling National workers as militants was there for all to see and read, the NPCC reminded, explaining that “after the Government of India had recognised the Naga cause as ‘political in nature’, to call National workers as militants again was unfortunate as it would only complicate the already complex problem.”
