NCP Nagaland unit Sunday said it had “taken strong exception of Imkong L. Imchen, spokesperson of the NPF Legislators dissident group”, for dragging it into the present political crisis within the NPF Legislature party.
In a press release issued through its general secretary (adm) Miathou Krose, NCP pointed out that during the last Assembly elections (February 2013), the party had contested the elections on its own and did not enter into pre-poll alliance with the DAN.
However, NCP said after the party won four seats and following the formation of DAN-III government, it had extended unconditional support to the DAN-III government headed by the then chief minister, Neiphiu Rio and subsequently NCP was accepted as a post-poll alliance partner of the present DAN-III.
It pointed out that blaming the present chief minister, T.R. Zeliang for “incorporation of NCP into the present DAN III Ministry” was totally unfounded, baseless and misleading.
NCP said it was surprising on the part of a senior political leader like Imkong L. Imchen “to have forgotten all these political arrangements”.
With regard to disqualification of former three NCP MLAs by NLA Speaker, NCP reminded that they (3 MLAs) “defected in total violation of the NCP constitution and the provisions of the Tenth Schedule of the constitution of India”. For this, NCP asserted that chief minister T.R. Zeliang “should not be implicated and this matter should never confuse the general public since the matter has been taken to the Supreme Court by the NCP legal cell vide a special Leave petition”.
Meanwhile, NCP Nagaland state unit has reaffirmed its “fullest support to the DAN-III government under the leadership of the DAN chairman, Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu and chief minister T.R. Zeliang”.
Thursday, February 19, 2026