DIMAPUR, MAY 19 (MExN): The Nagaland People’s Front on Friday said that those who are opposed to the term ‘equi-closeness’ should spell out in clear terms to whom Nagas should remain close and whom Nagas should keep at bay. Taking a dig at the Opposition Congress, NPF General Secretary Chubatemjen Ao said, “It is true that the Congress party harness the policy of ‘equi-distance’ which means they do not want anybody near enough but to keep everybody at bay.”
He said the Congress had adopted this policy “because their key purpose was to follow their colonialist principle of ‘divide and rule’ and throughout their regime they did their best only to divide the Nagas.”
The principle of ‘equi-closeness’ is an invitation to come as close as possible with an ultimate objective “to let all Nagas unite and live together,” the NPF said.
“If they (Congress) refuse to see ‘any approach’ made by the present DAN government, they can do a lot of good if the Congress Party can display the list of ‘all those things’ they had done on this vital subject during their tenure in power for decades and let the people judge for themselves who had done more.”
“The recent all party delegation to meet various Indian leaders was a delegation of the Legislators as a sequel to their decision and not of the Party functionaries and therefore, the non participation of the Congress Legislators is a sheer display of their inherent double standard game of the Party which has been their forte all along.”
On the 9 IRB deployment to Chhattisgarh, the NPF said “that the deployment had to be carried out to comply to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the previous Congress government in the State with the Government of India at the time of raising the battalion and it was not a willful decision of the DAN government.”
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