Nagaland: NPF criticises state govt over COVID management, NDPP responds it as 'illogical'

The ruling NDPP on Wednesday said the logic of the Opposition NPF that the number of Covid-19 positive cases in Nagaland is increasing because of the failure of the state government is not only absurd but bordering on insanity.

The NPF has once again tried to justify their demand for the incumbent PDA government to step down by continuing to harp on an issue which the whole world is trying to come to terms with, the NDPP media and communication committee said in a release.

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“Going by the illogical stand of the Opposition party, if the rising numbers of positive cases are to be attributed to the failure of the government, then people across the world should be clamouring for their respective governments to step down,” the NDPP said.

It said the NPF is so blinded by its hunger to take over the government that it failed to see and accept the global information and data on the current pandemic that has gripped the world.

The people are not blind as the NPF take them to be, it said adding they understand the efforts that are being taken by the government as well as the various civil organisations in tackling the pandemic.

The NDPP said such wild rhetoric of the Opposition party will only do them more harm than good.

The ruling party also expressed surprise at the NPF president Shurhozelie Liezietsu’s statement supporting the stand taken by the NPF that the government must step down. It wondered how one of the octogenarian politicians in Nagaland and a former chief minister defended and supported such a stand.

“For a former chief minister who has also been a member of the Cabinet on numerous occasions, it is expected of him to be aware that governments cannot be made to step down at the whims and fancies of the opposition,” the NDPP said.

It said the Opposition party was trying to create confusion in the minds of the people by repeating that Governor RN Ravi has lost confidence in the government. In his letter to the chief minister, the Governor had at no time mentioned that he had lost his confidence in the government.

“Such callous statements made by the so-called oldest regional party are unbecoming and immature,” the ruling party said. 

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