Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has slammed the ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) party for pushing the state into a crisis; also held the BJP responsible for prolonging the crisis with its flip-flop support and also questioned the “indifference” of the Governor on the crisis.
NPCC through its media cell, blamed NPF having absolute majority with 38 members and not the DAN coalition, for pushing the state into a situation where the leader of the house of 60 members, functioned with reduced strength of less than 31 members.
It said in the even of either happening, all 38 NPF legislators would be made answerable for creating a “destabilising situation” where the final outcome could affect settlement of the Naga political issue.
In addition, NPCC said it was unfortunate that when the state was reeling under severe financial crisis, the political instability within NPF has paralysed all spheres of governance and created untold miseries on the people.
Taking a jab at the “entire political drama of power tussle within the NPF”,NPCC said it noted with amusement that “NPF dissidents, despite all their rhetoric, have failed even to move a no confidence motion against chief minister T.R.Zeliang”. who “in their own words” was “heading a minority government”
NPCC said though Dr. Shürhozelie “is still the NPF president in the eyes of the law” yet his failure to “expel even a single dissident legislator from the party” was to keep the door open so that any member could walk in. It said this only proved that the current crisis was all about “greed for plum portfolios and nothing else”.
NPCC has also held the BJP, a pre-poll ally of the NPF, equally responsible for prolonging the crisis within NPF by first siding with the Kaito group, then withdrawing it later, “after much flip-flop”. It said the “tacit gamble of the BJP to gain a foothold in the state” was discernible to all, as the “belated so-called neutrality of the BJP” only further prolonged the instability within the NPF.
NPCC reiterated that the role of the Governor as the constitutional head of the state, was to uphold the sanctity of the constitution “without bias or favour”. However, it said while the prime minister’s maxim was for “minimum government and maximum governance”; the state Governor was content with “less governance and maximum government without stability” and paralysing the entire state machinery.
NPCC said the prolonged crisis also reflected the “indifference of the Hon’ble Governor” in allowing the chief minister to function without asking him to prove majority on the floor of the assembly” and ascertain if “the dissidents are in majority to prove that the leader of the house is reduced to minority”
After watching “the ongoing spectacle” enacted by the NPF rival camps in public where each hurled accusations at each other, NPCC said it only vindicated the stand of the Congress, that NPF leaders in 12 years of power, have failed on all fronts, except raise the bar on “blatant corruption” and looting the state exchequer to land the state in a “staggering deficit” of over Rs.2000 crore by the end of March 2015.
NPCC said the current political crisis would be settled “if plum portfolios” were reallocated among “warring NPF camps” whose leaders were least bothered about people and issues of governance. NPCC said NPF leaders currently mudslinging at each other were “selfish and greedy” and would eventually “forgive and forget, if their greed for power and access to accumulate wealth are satiated” as in the past.
Friday, February 20, 2026