Greed of NPF leaders, threat to people’s interest: NPCC

NPCC expressed concern over the continuing political uncertainty in Nagaland caused by major confrontation within rival NPF groups, each claiming legitimacy and prolonging the current situation that was “uncalled for”.
Media cell of the NPCC reminded that the party on earlier occasions, maintained that the “ongoing power struggle is an internal matter of the NPF” for which it refused to support any of the group. NPCC said it could “never remain silent” when political instability, created by “selfishness and insatiable greed of NPF leaders” threatened the interest of the people and issue of governance.
It reminded that despite NPF having won a massive mandate with 38 seats in the March 2013 assembly election, under the combined leadership of Dr.Shurhozelie and Neiphiu Rio to form the DAN-III government; yet it “failed to provide stability” and warned that the “ongoing political crisis is fraught with consequences of President’s Rule being imposed in the state.”
NPCC held both Shurhozelie and Neiphiu responsible for the current instability and uncertainty facing Nagas.
Taking a dig, NPCC said in the past NPF leaders “never missed” an opportunity to “proudly proclaim” that NPF government carried the popular mandate of the masses. It also said NPF vowed that it “will never fun away from its responsibilities” but continue to “respect and uphold the people’s voice in carrying out their constitutional duties”.
However, overriding such earlier stand, NPCC said the present situation of “power struggle unfolding before people” was laced with “lack of respect for the people’s mandate” which has presently created a “situation of instability” and “paralysed all spheres of governance and polarised people on different lines”.
NPCC also reminded that as then chief minister Neiphiu Rio had “always voiced out against imposition of President’s Rule” which he termed as “unhealthy for democracy, tantamount to suppression of people’s mandate and disrespect for the voice of the masses”.
Further, it said Rio had vowed that he would protect the desire and will of the people and refrain from creating any situation where, President’s Rule would be imposed against the will of the people. After being elected to the Lok Sabha to “try his hand in national politics”, NPCC said Rio seemed to have taken a “leap of faith, to abandon his previous apprehensions of PR being imposed in the state”.
NPCC also reminded that Rio was forgetting his promise made in the state assembly, when he left the chief ministerial chair to conveniently escape to Delhi as MP that he was going to take up bigger responsibilities for Nagaland as his constituency.
Taking on Rio, NPCC asked did “bigger and different responsibilities” mean joining hands with BJP-RSS “ to destabilise his own party and the state?
It said that by creating instability that would invite President’s Rule at this juncture , was against the will of the people, who have given NPF a massive mandate for a stable government that would last its full term.
NPCC asked leaders of both NPF groups in different locations, to realise this before their personal greed and ambition “brings their own downfall when the moment of reckoning arrives sooner or later”. It further cautioned, that ultimately all the legislators under DAN “ will be held solely responsible and answerable to the people of Nagaland, for failing to even put up a semblance of stability to last its full term.”