KOHIMA, Feb 5 (Agencies): The Congress will be fighting the ruling Naga Peoples Front (NPF)-led ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) on the issues of law and order and corruption in the coming municipal elections and next year’s assembly polls in Nagaland, according to party sources.
Officials and members of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) met here yesterday to discuss its strategy for the coming elections. It reviewed the performance of the DAN government since it came to power in 2003.
Sources said elections to four municipal councils and fifteen town committees in the state are likely to be held in the month of April. Assembly elections are due in early 2013.
The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee has identified two important issues —rampant corruption and glaring nepotism leading to misuse of huge central funds and lack of development, economic stagnation and escalating unemployment besides, deteriorating law and order situation causing escalation of factional feuds and unabated extortion leading to sky rocketing of prices of commodities.
A NPCC note released to the media said “Deteriorating law and order, escalating factional feuds and growing sense of public insecurity is a typical carbon copy of lawlessness and constitutional breakdown in the state,” the NPCC said resolving to intensify anti-corruption measures on a `war footing`.
It also alleged, “Parallel governments are existing in the state and DAN has no hold over the eroding situation.”
The meeting further entrusted NPCC to `rigorously` track and `pin down` tainted persons or officials in various departments, especially in education and home departments. Five FIRs were filed in the State Vigilance Commission against the two departments.
It lambasted the DAN government’s recent directive to enforce `no work, no pay` on employees for poor attendance. It said, the stance speak volumes on the morale of government machineries in a `morally and financially corrupt establishment`.
Congress sources further said, the municipal elections would be an indicator of the next year’s assembly election.