Rahul assures early solution to Naga problem
Source: The Sangai Express / Press Trust of India
Kohima, February 14 2013:
AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi today assured an early solution to the decades old Naga problem which would be 'honourable and acceptable to all sections of the people.
The UPA government at the Centre is sincere towards resolving the Naga political issue.
"UPA government will try all avenues to find a settlement of the Naga issue at the earliest so that peace can be ushered in the state for all round development," he told public rallies at Mon and Tuensang.
Lashing out at the Naga Peoples Front (NPF)-led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland(DAN) government for failing to deliver in the last 10 years of its regime, Gandhi said enough funds had been pumped in the state for development but nothing has been done and funds were pocketed by the people in power.
He urged the people to vote for Congress in the February 23 Assembly polls and see the changes it would bring to the people.
The future of the Naga people is bleak due to rampant corruption and bad governance by the DAN government and their present 'pathetic condition' is due to the governance of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio.
Backward districts need more development, he said and claimed that Rio had developed the backward areas 'only through papers and lip-services' .
Speaking at the rallies, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said that Nagaland is the least developed among the seven northeastern states due to rampant corruption.
"Nagaland is in pathetic condition and people have not benefitted from the fruits of the central government," he said.
Tuki said, his government had taken initiatives on the road sector and that roads have been constructed upto the Nagaland border but no initiative was taken on Nagaland's side, clearly reflecting corruption and bad governance.
Nagaland Leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP), Tokheho Yepthomi said, in its 10 year-rule, the DAN government had ruined the state and all development funds had been embezzled by Rio and a handful of his people.
Nothing had been done by the government in the backward districts, particularly in Tuensang, Kiphire, Longleng and Mon, he alleged.
"There is no governance, Rio has only ruled the state,"he said and wondered where the public funds disappeared.
Former state chief minister and Governor of Goa and Maharashtra, SC Jamir too lashed out at the DAN government and urged the people to reject the corrupt dispensation.