Pawan Khera Points at "Maladministration" in Nagaland

NEW DELHI: As the election campaigning takes pace across the Northeastern part of the country, the media and publicity chairman of the All India Congress Committee, Pawan Khera took a jibe at the ruling parties in the Nagaland government while addressing a press conference.

Pawan Khare mentioned that the public of the state had placed their trust in Narendra Modi-led central government to solve their problems. But the existing government had made no progress in that direction over the last eight years.

He blamed the head of the Nationist Democratic Progressive Party, Neiphiu Rio for bringing in the Bharatiya Janata Party to the state while adding that both of the parties are responsible for the "maladministration" in Nagaland.

He also went on to add that the public of the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland had decided to trust New Delhi for removing the much-debated Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 from the state but failed. "It is sad that Nagaland had trusted someone in Delhi to remove AFSPA and solve other problems, but none of that happened in the last eight and a half years. People had believed what they were told, but their hopes dashed," said the Congress member.

The Neiphiu Rio-led NDPP had a majority in the state assembly with 38 out of the total 60 seats to their name with BJP winning 13 and NPF grabbing 4 seats in the previous election. While BJP should have formed the opposition in the state, an understanding with the ruling party led to the lack of any powers on the opposition front.

Although demands for a separate Frontier Nagaland were creating some misunderstandings regarding the participation of the ENPO member groups in this election, it was soon handled after several discussions between local people, leaders and officials of the government of India.

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