NPCC says PDA has failed on all fronts; demand dismissal of govt

Alleging that the ruling PDA government has failed on all fronts, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) Tuesday demanded that the governor step in to salvage the situation by dismissing “this incompetent and callous government”, which it said was “only interested in clinging on to power at whatever cost.”

NPCC through its communication department said that present government’s continuation in office would “only prolong the miseries” suffered by the people.

Congress party alleged that sending back 169 returnees to Tuensang after just three days of institutional quarantine in Kohima in violation of its own 14-day institutional quarantine rule has once again exposed the “sheer criminal negligence” of the state government.

It said that the state government, while displaying “extreme callousness” in handling returnees from other districts, has “totally abdicated” its responsibility to the people of Nagaland. 

Congress also claimed that state government’s “eagerness to be held hostage by the diktats of some civil society organisations and local bodies has sliced opened the wounds of discrimination and imbalanced share of development”, which it said was visible all over the state.

NPCC said it was “a great misfortune” that the people of the state were witnessing the state government in a state of total panic after repeatedly assuring that it was “well prepared” during the initials days of lockdown. “The rot in the government runs deep and this will only aggravate the lives of the citizens during this pandemic,” NPCC said, adding that the government, by its actions, seemed more concerned about saving its political face rather than save the people of Nagaland.