Dimapur, November 25 (MExN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) isn’t too happy that former NPF Finance Minister K Therie took the bat on Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and NPF President Dr. Shurhozelie on the party’s stand on the Indo-Naga dialogue and NPF’s expansion among other matter.
A “press rejoinder” from the NPF’s media cell called Therie – once a top NPF leader – “frustrated” and “desperate.”
On the former minister’s accusing the NPF leadership of ‘not understanding’ the Naga political issue, the NPF reacted in one lengthy response: “Mr. K. Therie’s claim that both Chief Minister, Mr. Neiphiu Rio and Urban Development Minister Dr Shürhozelie ‘could not understand that Naga underground and overground society have been fractured into pieces during their governance and that people were not comfortable under their biased leadership and also not happy with the paternalistic, manipulative and dictatorial leadership’ caries no iota of truth and is the unthinkable joke of the era.
According to the NPF, the quest for a permanent solution to the Indo-Naga political issue has “tracked on” for decades but remains the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government’s top priority. A lot has been said and done and the NPF will ‘continue to be the foundation upon which the principles and ideology of the Naga people’s political aspiration lies, so as to provide a strong and stable platform for the government to translate their (Naga people) quest into reality.’
On the matter concerning expansion of the NPF to other north-eastern states, the party responded in another good length: ‘(The party) envisages widening its ambit to cover all Naga-inhabited areas and other states in the country is to “promote social integration, national understanding and create/maintain political order to ensure a clean and self reliant society; keeping sincere concern for the welfare and pride of our posterity, the Gen-next on top priority.”’
Concerning the demand for a separate state as made by an organization from the eastern areas of Nagaland, the NPF said the DAN government ‘never minced words or shied away from making factual commends’ (sic).
“On January 14, 2011, inaugurating the 63rd United Sangtam Students’ Conference at Kiphire, in presence of a mammoth gathering, Dr Shürhozelie clearly said he had nothing to commend on the ENPO demand for a separate state because it is a matter between the ENPO and the Central Government and that ENPO is not demanding from the Nagaland government but from the Central government. Expressing apprehension that the development may dismantle the hard won peace which has paved the way for a final solution to the Naga political issue, Dr Liezetsu added that ‘Naga people will be helpless if the stage players fall into the trap of speaking what the ‘prompters’ prompt from behind the screen.’”
Further, the party claimed that the NPF is “a well-knit, disciplined family, with unwavering stand to safeguard and uphold the Naga identity and work towards bringing a solution to the Indo-Naga political issue acceptable to all.”
The NPF also had a word for Therie concerning his misgivings about the party’s elections and functioning of its leadership. “It is utterly ridiculous and astonishing that Mr. K. Therie, Convener, Political Affairs Committee, NPCC has taken it so bitterly and murmur about the re-election of Dr Shürhozelie Liezetsu as President of NPF.”
A “press rejoinder” from the NPF’s media cell called Therie – once a top NPF leader – “frustrated” and “desperate.”
On the former minister’s accusing the NPF leadership of ‘not understanding’ the Naga political issue, the NPF reacted in one lengthy response: “Mr. K. Therie’s claim that both Chief Minister, Mr. Neiphiu Rio and Urban Development Minister Dr Shürhozelie ‘could not understand that Naga underground and overground society have been fractured into pieces during their governance and that people were not comfortable under their biased leadership and also not happy with the paternalistic, manipulative and dictatorial leadership’ caries no iota of truth and is the unthinkable joke of the era.
According to the NPF, the quest for a permanent solution to the Indo-Naga political issue has “tracked on” for decades but remains the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government’s top priority. A lot has been said and done and the NPF will ‘continue to be the foundation upon which the principles and ideology of the Naga people’s political aspiration lies, so as to provide a strong and stable platform for the government to translate their (Naga people) quest into reality.’
On the matter concerning expansion of the NPF to other north-eastern states, the party responded in another good length: ‘(The party) envisages widening its ambit to cover all Naga-inhabited areas and other states in the country is to “promote social integration, national understanding and create/maintain political order to ensure a clean and self reliant society; keeping sincere concern for the welfare and pride of our posterity, the Gen-next on top priority.”’
Concerning the demand for a separate state as made by an organization from the eastern areas of Nagaland, the NPF said the DAN government ‘never minced words or shied away from making factual commends’ (sic).
“On January 14, 2011, inaugurating the 63rd United Sangtam Students’ Conference at Kiphire, in presence of a mammoth gathering, Dr Shürhozelie clearly said he had nothing to commend on the ENPO demand for a separate state because it is a matter between the ENPO and the Central Government and that ENPO is not demanding from the Nagaland government but from the Central government. Expressing apprehension that the development may dismantle the hard won peace which has paved the way for a final solution to the Naga political issue, Dr Liezetsu added that ‘Naga people will be helpless if the stage players fall into the trap of speaking what the ‘prompters’ prompt from behind the screen.’”
Further, the party claimed that the NPF is “a well-knit, disciplined family, with unwavering stand to safeguard and uphold the Naga identity and work towards bringing a solution to the Indo-Naga political issue acceptable to all.”
The NPF also had a word for Therie concerning his misgivings about the party’s elections and functioning of its leadership. “It is utterly ridiculous and astonishing that Mr. K. Therie, Convener, Political Affairs Committee, NPCC has taken it so bitterly and murmur about the re-election of Dr Shürhozelie Liezetsu as President of NPF.”
