Dimapur, October 1 (MExN): Candidate to the post of President of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) SI Jamir today challenged colleague and fellow-candidate I Imkong to furnish the names of the PCC electoral college members the latter alleged were “confined against their will” by the latter.
SI Jamir issued another rejoinder today, one in a string of war-of-words between him and Imkong since the botched September 17 Congress polls in Kohima. The “habitual lies” of I. Imkong and his group show signs of desperation, Jamir said.
“He should spell out the names of those members of PCC Electoral College whom he alleged are confined against their will. He should also name those members in our fold whom he claimed are supporting his candidature. The members supporting SI Jamir had gone to Delhi on their own volition to apprise the high command as the party image is at stake due to problems created by them on 17th Sept. 2010. In fact, it was I. Imkong and group who had reached Delhi first to mislead and influence some Central party leaders with false report on the incident,” Jamir said..
He said the members have “voluntarily decided to flock together taking into consideration his violent methods of winning in successive general elections in his constituency in the past.” Even now some of our members are threatened “through SMS by using unidentified SIM cards,” Jamir said.
SI Jamir also stuck to his guns that I. Imkong, as one of the contenders for the NPCC chair, is no longer a “full-fledged president.” “Being an interim care-taker president with election model code of conduct firmly in operation, he has no power to revoke the suspension order of the four errant members issued by KDCC. His constitutional power to take on action of this nature had temporarily ceased,” Jamir said.
The party constitution, Jamir said, “is very clear that any District Congress Committee has every power to take disciplinary action against its subordinate members within its jurisdiction.” When Imkong claimed that the culprits are his supporters and justified their actions by revocation of their suspension order, “it proved beyond doubt that they had acted at his behest and the entire incident was pre-planned by him and his core group,” the rejoinder explained.
The culprits had committed the “highest degree of criminal act in electoral politics in full public view” on the polling day, Jamir said, and an FIR is still pending against them.
“Therefore, to justify their criminal action before the law takes its course of action is nothing but criminalization of politics. As he lost all hopes of winning he had abused his power to sabotage the constitutional election and delay the process so as to retain himself as ad-hoc President,” the rejoinder added.
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