Displeasure over attitude of PDA :: NPF
Kohima, 28th February 2019
The Naga People’s Front express its displeasure over the attitude of the PDA legislators over the recently held Assembly session over many pertaining issues concerning to the state.
It may be mentioned that, either the question put forth by the NPF legislators were rejected in the business list for the reason best known to the Assembly secretariat and many of the questioned raised by the opposition bench in the question hour were not answered or either twisted. Some of the pertinent question raised by the opposition bench to the particular department were not answered by the concern caretaker MLA of the department but found answering by the other department Cabinet Ministers.
It may be pointed out that, on the last day of debate on the budget speech laid before the House by the Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio, the NPF Legislature party leader, TR Zeliang who is the opposition leader had raised and sought clarification from the State Planning Minister, Neiba Kronu on the road sector. But the Planning Minister had failed to provide any satisfactorily answer to the much public importance in the floor of the house.
To the queries, Kronu simply went on the say that, good quality of roads for Dimapur and Kohima will be completed within 2-3 years and change will be visible in these two cities and the contractors concern will maintain those roads for 3 years after the completion of the road project without mentioning any particular roads.
When the opposition leader asked the concern Minister to produce which were the roads in the two cities and under which scheme the ongoing roads were executing and also sought to know the amount against each road and request the Planning Minister to publish the same in the local dailies the following day. However, till date no such information sought by the opposition appeared in the local papers.
Taking this into account, the NPF asked the ruling Government to be sincerer in their approach towards the development of the state.
Issued by:
Press Bureau,
Naga People’s Front,
Central Headquarter,
Nagaland: Kohima.
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This Press Release was posted on March 01 2019
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