Mizos and BJP-their religion and cow slaughtering
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Aizawl, March 13 2014 :
Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has said any alliance with the BJP is not safe for the Mizos as the saffron parties prohibits the slaughter of cows, the favourite dish of the Mizos.
Any regional party harbouring to alliance with the BJP should also think of the Church, the missionaries and the Mizo religion, the Congress party in Mizoram stated.
In a press statement released by its media department, MPCC has alleged that all the regional political parties in Mizoram, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, are broadly grouped into two.
While one group is led by Mizo National Front (MNF) leader Zoramthanga, another group is led by Zoram Nationalist Party ( ZNP) president Lalduhoma.
Both of them, if win the elections, have an inclination of joining hands with BJP at the Centre, the MPCC said.
"ZNP leader Lalduhoma has gone even to the extent of signing an agreement with state BJP leaders before the elections," MPCC alleged in the statement.
MPCC also said that the announcement of 'joining hands with BJP which is 'completely a non-Mizo political party' by state regional parties who self styled themselves as 'great nationalists' is the starting point for the latter (regional parties) to enter into national mainstream.
"It is rationally an awakening on the part of the regional parties to come to Indian national stream," the MPCC added.
"However, the joggle to join hands with BJP is ridiculous, shameful and not safe enough for the Mizo nation", MPCC cautions.
MPCC then stated that the regional parties should rather think in advance the security for Mizo religion, missionaries and churches.
It has also appealed the regional parties to consult its party members first before submitting to the opinions of either one or two leaders.
The decision of joining hands with BJP which prohibits the slaughter of cows, one of the favourite dishes of the Mizos is not safe enough, MPCC said.
It therefore appealed the regional parties to re-consider their decision again in the interest of the Mizo nation as a whole.