Cong blames NPF, BJP for crisis in state

KOHIMA: Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has blamed the ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) for pushing the state into a crisis and also held the BJP responsible for prolonging the crisis with its flip-flop support. The Congress also questioned the ‘indifference’ of the governor to the crisis.
In a statement, NPCC said it was unfortunate that state was reeling from sever financial crisis, the political instability within NPF has paralyzed all spheres of governance and created untold miseries for the people.
Further, NPCC has also held BJP, a pre-poll ally of NPF, equally responsible for over stretching the crisis within NPF by first siding with the Kaito group, then withdrawing it later, “after much flip-flop”.
It said the “tacit gamble of BJP to gain a foothold in the state” was discernible to all, as the “belated so-called neutrality of BJP” only further prolonged the instability within NPF.
NPCC said though Dr Shürhozelie, “is still the NPF president in the eyes of the law” yet his failure to “expel even a single dissident legislator from the party” was to keep the door open so that any member could walk in. This only proved that the current crisis was all about “greed for plum portfolios and nothing else”, added the NPCC statement.
NPCC reiterated that the role of the governor as the constitutional head of the state, was to uphold the sanctity of the constitution “without bias or favour”. However, it said while the Prime Minister’s maxim was for “minimum government and maximum governance”, the governor was content with “less governance and maximum government without stability” and paralyzing the entire state machinery.
“The prolonged crisis also reflected the indifference of the governor in allowing the CM to function without asking him to prove majority on the floor of the assembly and ascertain if the dissidents are in majority to prove that the leader of the house is reduced to minority,” an NPCC member said.