DIMAPUR, JANUARY 14 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today said that Union Home Minister of State, Kiren Rijiju should “stop persecuting Christians across the nation” before coming to Nagaland.
Rijiju, it may be noted has been made as the BJP’s poll in charge for Nagaland for the upcoming assembly polls in the state.
A press note from the NPCC President, K Therie said that the Union Minister should also “stop demolition of Churches, free foreign contributions toward missionary works such as hospitals, schools, colleges and other charity works, pay scholarships to theological students and also stop hate campaigns and discrimination against Christians” before he visits the state.
The Congress said that the Union Minister had “at one time said the Government of India will not break the Ceasefire and negotiations and that they will do everything to keep negotiation and peace alive.” “They do not have solution for us. It is no wonder when he is saying the status of peace cannot be revealed at this juncture because he doesn’t know what they are talking about. This is the true intention of the BJP,” the Congress claimed in its press note.
The NPCC further reminded that the Union Minister had “also said election and solution should not be linked for the reason that BJP has no answer in Parliament. Their objective is to prolong and let generations perish expecting new generations will change their minds.”
The NPCC stated that the people “should not be confused by words of peace and development BJP continues to promise.” “They in reality have nothing to give and we cannot continue to suffer under the present situations. Their promises of development are hollow and far from reality. They cannot even maintain existing roads and infrastructure,” it pointed out.
The State unit of the Congress said that voters in Nagaland must realize that the Naga Peoples’ Front has “outlived and is now a spent force.” “Their infighting will continue till death does them apart,” it predicted, while lamenting that the 12th Nagaland State Assembly has “drawn us backward to the pre-statehood period.”
