Naga People’s Front (NPF) on Wednesday vehemently condemned what it has described as “the partisan role played by the Nagaland Governor in installing a government through backdoor” without following the due process of parliamentary norms.
NPF Central Headquarters through its Media & Press Bureau (M&PB) stated that the haste with which the governor has acted time favouring the “RSS-friendly dispensation” should be a wake-up call to the Naga people that there were elements fiercely and furiously doing the utmost “to pierce the Trishul into the heart-land of Christ.”
M&PB said that the presence of RSS functionaries in large number in Nagaland in the last few days should also open the eyes of the Naga people as to what exactly was the ulterior motive behind the present political drama.
It alleged that the governor, a decorated RSS pracharak, was sent to the land of Christians with a single agenda, but “could not effectively fulfil his mission so long as the BJP was riding piggy-back on the NPF.”
M&PB said that the NPF, by aligning with the BJP all these years and playing host to the saffron party, was successful in containing the agenda of the BJP in Nagaland.
As coalition partner, the NPF said it managed to keep the BJP in alive but ensuring that it was barely alive.
Recalling the “electoral history” in the state, the M&PB said BJP won 7 seats in 2003 but later they merged with the NPF (one out of 7 died while in office before the merger).
In 2008, it said 2 BJP candidates returned to the Assembly only to merge again with the NPF. In 2013, only one BJP returned to the House.
However, it said that after the BJP victory at the Centre in 2014, three NCP MLAs merged with the BJP, which was contested by the NPF in the Courts “thereby earning the ire of the Lok Sabha MP and former Chief Minister which is in public knowledge.”
M&PB said it would seem that the BJP, buoyed by the Assam and Manipur victories, plans to repeat another Arunachal experiment in Nagaland. However, it said the BJP has another thinking coming because its culture and mentality were alien to the Naga people.
Without the NPF to cloak it, M&PB said BJP would stand “fully exposed and its nakedness shall never appeal to the Naga psyche.”
Further, M&PB said that if the governor has any sense of decency and fair play, he owed to explain to the people of Nagaland and to his conscience what extenuating circumstances prompted him to support legislators sans party set up this time round when he did exactly the opposite in 2015.
“Or has he forgotten that in 2015 he did not entertain the NPF dissidents’ plea to dismiss the then so-called ‘minority’ Government of TR Zeliang who then had the sanction and mandate of the party set up?” the M&PB asked.
It said the governor should also not gloat over his act of dismissing the NPF-led DAN government and installing and expelled legislator “because this has shown the vindictiveness he harbours: The day after the NPF severed ties with the BJP, the Governor dismissed the NPF-led Government! He has shown his true colours for all to see.”