Nagaland Ruling Party Alleges its Opposition of Trying to Break the Government

Nagaland Ruling Party Alleges its Opposition of Trying to Break the Government

The ruling party in Nagaland, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) has accused its opposition Naga People’s Front (NPF) saying that the opposition is trying to break their government by taking support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The NDPP in a press release issued on Thursday evening has blamed NPF leader and former chief minister TR Zeliang and his party and have stated that he is making “desperate attempts to regain power”. The NDPP also alleged that it all started when Zeliang met the BJP’s central leadership in Delhi on September 26. In that meeting, Zeliang expressed his party NPF’s willingness to align with the saffron party after its President Shurhozelie Liezietsu’s term concludes.

Alleging Zeliang of his attempts to form a new government and de-throne the ruling NDPP, the press release of the ruling party states, “In continuation of his lies, he (Zeliang) informed the BJP leadership that he has the support of the Independent MLA, the JD (U) and the National People’s Party and that some NDPP members were also willing to join him.”

Notably, before this as well, the BJP had been a partner in the NPF-led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland and the alliance party was in power since 2003. But later, the BJP broke its ties with NPF ahead of the assembly polls in March this year and befriended the newly-formed NDPP.

For BJP, on the other hand, clearing its stand, the BJP Nagaland chief Temjen Imna Along said, “Whatever is being played out is between NDPP and NPF and BJP has no role in it. I can assure that the PDA alliance is intact and there’s no threat to the present government.”

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