NPP Nagaland State is totally flabbergasted over the unconstitutional manner in which some handful and dissident members of the party has announced through a press conference that they are tendering a mass resignation citing reason that they have lost their faith on the State President.

 

In this regard, we would like to clarify the following :

1. That, this handful of members who have tendered their resignation do not even comprise 2% of the total party strength contrary to their claims that they comprise 80% of the party.

2. The members who have tendered their resignation are the dissident group of the party, the rotten apples, who were sooner or later going to be suspended from the party due to numerous anti-party activities which they had been carrying out for the past many months in order to topple the leadership of the party due to their ulterior and selfish designs.

3. This dissident group of selfish members had been vehemently trying their best to destabilize the party and bring about disunity and mistrust among the rank and file of the party. They had tried their best to use all sorts of cheap and back-door false campaigns and anti-party activities so that they can gain control of the party helms and thereby manipulate the party according to their whims.

4. NPP Nagaland would like to further clarify that we have a well established party constitution and ideology according to which every party functionary conducts oneself. No one is above the party and its ethics. However, this dissident group of members had used all kinds of negative tactics to bring about disrepute to the name and good public standing of the State President and other senior leaders of the party. Due to all their anti-party activities, even the National Leaders had taken due cognizance of their negative impacts on the smooth functioning of the party and had advised the State President to reorganize the party rank and file and thereby bring about a complete overhauling of the party in the state by taking out the negative elements who were hell-bent upon creating ruckus and upheavals in the party.

5. As to their claim that they had been adhering to the party constitution, we would like to question their sincerity of the claim when they had out rightly rejected the very basis of the party constitution by involving in groupism, disharmony, back-biting and gossiping with the intent of tarnishing the good image of the party and its leaders.

6. In fact these wayward members had committed the highest form of treason against the party and its tenets by resorting to an unconstitutional signature campaign which was never endorsed by either the National or the State Leadership. This signature campaign had solely been conducted so that they could confuse the members of the party and few of them could usurp the post of the State President by removing the present President. This ulterior motive however never materialized as the National Leaders came to understand their selfish motives and intentions and therefore the Central Leaders advised the present state leadership to completely reorganize the party structure from the grassroots level.

7. Regarding the District Presidents who have tendered their resignations from Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire, Longleng and Mokokchung Districts, it should be noted once and for all that these leaders were stumbling blocks in the progress of the party who had always utilized the party resources for their own selfish agendas. They had never tried to put their sincere efforts in increasing the party membership in any of the Districts which they represented. In fact they do not even have any records of their own district’s party membership as they never bothered about membership drive or the welfare of the party. They only wanted the post of the District President so that they could enjoy undue benefits from various corners. It was in the context of this that, the State President himself had to form several committees and bodies for the membership drives and other activities of the party in these districts as there were no fruitful activities of the party under their leadership. In fact, due to all these hassles in the districts mentioned above, and under the directive from the National President for reorganization, we appointed very able and worthy leaders as the new Convenors and District Presidents of these districts and it is indeed encouraging that under the new leadership, the party is progressing at a rapid pace in all the districts. The former non-performing district presidents could not stomach this abrupt change in leadership and therefore started bearing undue and unwarranted grudge against the party and hence we had very well expected such a turn of events.

8. Due to all of the above and the very fact that most of the frontal bodies of the party including the NPYF and the State Women Wing and also some of the Districts as mentioned above were not even expanding the party membership and practically there was no activity at all in the context of how a normal political party should function. And hence, it was pertinent for the party leadership to cleanse the party of such members. Therefore some of the members who had tendered their resignations had already been relieved of their duties in the party due to their non performance.

9. It is also a matter of great shame for the party that Mr. Limanuksung Longkumer who had been given the post of the General Secretary (Org.) and additionally was given the in-charge of Karbi Anglong never brought any worthwhile changes to the party’s growth and progress. In fact the condition of NPP in Karbi Anglong further dwindled under his in-charge whereby the party had to face an embarrassing loss in both the Assam Assembly Election as well as the recently concluded Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Election. Due to all these debacles of the NPP at all fronts under his in-charge it was but expected that sooner or later he will own moral responsibility and tender his resignation.

10. Lastly, but not the least, NPP Nagaland is growing from strength to strength at all the fronts including in all the districts and we are enthusiastically working towards the overall growth, development and progress of the masses. In such a positive win-win situation for our party, it has rather come as a great sigh of relief that such dissident, wayward and undisciplined members of the party have sidelined themselves and resigned enmasse. We feel that this is a very welcome sign for our party and we rejoice in the fact that now we can look forward with greater anticipation for further strengthening our party at all levels under the dynamic and able leadership of our present parent body leaders led by our State President, Dr. Andrew Ahoto Sema.

Long Live NPP!

NPP Nagaland State

 

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