Accusing Governor PB Acharya of breaking all democratic norms and acting at the behest of the BJP, the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) on Friday organised a beef feast at the NPF Central Office at State capital Kohima and invited the Governor to join them for dinner.
The development came after dissident faction of the NPF leaders led by Chief Minister TR Zeliang won the floor test at the State legislative Assembly on Friday, proving his majority with the support of 47 legislators.
While the 47 legislators — including the NPF, seven Independents and four BJP leaders — voted in favour of Zeliang, eleven legislators voted against him during the floor test on Friday. Zeliang was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland on Wednesday after Dr Shurhoselie liezietsu failed to prove his majority in the House leading to his dismissal from Chief Minister’s post. The NPF president later expelled TR Zelliang from the party for six years for his involvement in anti-party activities.
“Your Excellency has been terribly busy in the last few days breaking all democratic norms playing politics and installing your party BJP-friendly Government in the State. You have forgotten that the office of the Governor should be apolitical and stay away from politics, and have been acting as the leader of the dissident NPF group,” said president of NPF youth wing, Vihoshe N Swu on Friday.
“Your statements in the local papers justifying your evil deed are most entertaining being so hilarious. Your attempts to cloak your political decisions with some semblance of legality are transparent and the nakedness of it all is most repulsive and loathsome,” he said while slamming the Governor.
He also accused the Governor of turning a blind eye to a monumental travesty of democracy where a member of the Assembly who is expelled from the NPF for a period of six years has been accepted as the Chief Whip of the very party from which he has been expelled.
“…And so, to celebrate your latest political coup, and to mark the severance of ties with your political party the BJP, we are organizing a Beef Feast (Your Excellency knows Nagas are voracious meat eaters) this evening and would like to take this opportunity to invite you to cancel some of your not-so-official engagements in political scheming and to come and join us for Dinner at the Office Headquarters of the NPF Central Office, Kohima,” he added.
“The Nagas are patient people, but there is a limit to our patience. We are now in a jubilant mood because not only has the NPF severed ties with the BJP for good, you yourself have shown how low you can stoop to achieve your political and religious agenda in the last few days,” the regional party said.