Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Thursday demanded that the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) government should make its stand clear to the people of Nagaland and Government of India on the demand for Frontier Nagaland.
In a statement, NPCC president K Therie said Union Home Minister Amit Shah summoning Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) to discuss the demand for Frontier Nagaland on October 18, 2022 was a matter of serious concern for Congress and perhaps for all those who loved Nagaland.
He alleged that the motive was to divide Nagaland that might even result in the loss of Article 371(A) in the way Jammu & Kashmir lost Article 370.
Therie feared that Shah might also promise in the manner he had done to Kukis for votes.
According to Therie, it was the design of the Government of India to counter the demand for integration, fuelled by BJP and ruling coalition’s negligence, suppression, injustice and inequality in development activities and job distribution.
Therie appealed to ENPO to rethink on its demand and recalled assuring to relocate Department of Under Developed Areas (DUDA) and committing a mini-secretariat at Tuensang.
He explained that the objective was to enable planning, supervision and disbursement of payments there itself, which was however rejected by the mandate.
“However, we still feel there is a need to pay special attention in matters of road connectivity and other basic infrastructures. Rs 300 crore vanished into thin air. Other funds are drawn with no significant works seen on the ground for the last 20 years,” he pointed out.
The NPCC president said if the government was bad, then legislators from ENPO had their share of bad too, for all 20 MLAs were in the ruling coalition and the majority party was headed by none other than veteran leader Chingwang Konyak as NDPP president, who also continued to enjoy Cabinet status.
