Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has accused the State government of repeatedly committing serious blunders in the name of taking flexible approach to fight COVID-19.
Alleging that frequent changes in quarantine rules were more due to administrative convenience than any medical reasons, the State Congress unit in a release averred that the ineptness of political leadership was creating more confusion among the government machinery.
This was jeopardising the lives of both healthcare workers and other frontline workers, besides risking returnees and citizens, it added.
According to NPCC, the only welcome development was renovation of Ganeshnagar Industrial Estate on the outskirts of Dimapur town for converting it into institutional quarantine centre, as this sprawling 1000 acre estate was left almost abandoned for over 17 years.
The party thanked chief minister Neiphiu Rio for finally remembering and visiting the industrial estate, which he had allegedly conveniently ignored all these years in his quest for narrow development approach that had only benefited his coteries and cronies.
NPCC further alleged that the past 17 years with Rio as chief minister most of the time was about commitments for all, but development only in his area of interest.
As COVID-19 pandemic exposed poor governance, the party said it was also time for people of Nagaland to understand the dark underbelly of how successive DAN governments in the past and now PDA had brought the State to such a pathetic situation.
NPCC also demanded that the setting up of three-member judicial enquiry committee to probe the Tuensang fiasco should not end up like numerous such committees and commissions that never come out with logical conclusion.
Stating that the objective of past committees and commissions under DAN and PDA governments was more about shielding those in power rather than fixing accountability or the guilty being punished, the party hoped that it was proved wrong this time by ensuring that justice prevails.