Just a day after the PDA government and opposition party NPF passed resolution to form an all-party government under the nomenclature United Democratic Alliance (UDA), NPCC president K. Therie derided the new coalition as ‘United Deceiver’s Alliance”.
Speaking to Nagaland Post, Therie said all the members parroted the line that the highly unusual and anti-democratic move under the pretext of an early solution was only to deceive the people so as to delay the solution.
He has also challenged the joint statement of the PDA and NPF that they have decided to come together for the Naga political issue.
Therie made it clear that the opportunistic coming together of PDA and NPF had more to do with the ‘Nagaland Political Issue” and not the Naga political issue.
He said it was clear that both PDA and NPF coming together was to protect their respective interests over monumental corruption worth several thousand crore rupees during the DAN and PDA regimes in case either NIA or CBI begins conduct of investigations.
He also said forming of UDA will not have any impact on the Naga political groups since all of them have signed their respective agreements with the government of India through the Interlocutor.
Therie further stated that the people of Nagaland have lost confidence in the PDA government and do not expect it to deliver anything good to the people. He also alleged that the legislators were interested only to loot thousands crores of rupees passed in the budget and are not concerned about development percolating to any district except Kohima and Dimapur.
Therie said the promise of PDA that “change is coming”, is not visible as development on the ground was zero and even after CAG report reported unverifiable projects, fraudulent drawal, diversion, misappropriation, even as the state government chose to delay in appointment of Lokayukta to cover up corruption cases.
Therie further went on to state that the state government prepares project reports and deceive the government of India which has been happening for the last 18 and half years. He asserted that all these were done intentionally to deceive the people and therefore the proposed UDA should be called as “United Deceiver’s Alliance” than United Democratic Alliance.
Therie also said even as retired special director of IB, A.K. Mishra is in Nagaland to meet with NPGs, he will only be working as per the direction of the government of India and wondered whether Mishra could achieve any breakthrough in Naga political issue.
Therie pointed out that even as the chief minister Neiphiu Rio repeatedly stated that Centre has not totally dismissed Naga flag and constitution and integration, he pointed out that in the last meeting of the chief minister and union home minister, it was clear that there was nothing to discuss since “Amit Shah told Rio that flag, constitution and integration was not negotiable”.
Therie said Amit Shah reportedly asked Rio to convince NSCN (I-M) chief Th. Muivah about the stand of the government of India that Naga flag and constitution were not negotiable since he (Rio) was working hand in glove with Muivah.
Further, Therie informed that government of India might work on Naga political issues after Manipur state general election scheduled in 2022 and said this excuse will go on, elections after elections.
To a query, he said it would be good if the NSCN (Nikki) agreed to the points of the seven NNPGs as that was the best solution in the present situation.
Therie said even as the 60 members insisted government of India to resume the talks with NSCN (I-M), the group has nothing to decide for Nagaland since integration was rejected and it would be best to implement what was practicable.
Therie also said the nomenclature “Nagalim was not acceptable to the Nagas” as any political groups intending to change the nomenclature “Nagaland to Nagalim”, will not be acceptable to the people of Nagaland.
“We must have universal nomenclature where we will be recognized in international forums as a state” Therie said adding that change of nomenclature can be done only by the state government and not by any political group.
“We cannot accept the word “Lim”(as in ‘Nagalim’) which was not a universal language for the Nagas”, he informed.