What is un-digestible for the Naga public is that NONE of the BJP organisations and leaders dared question their high command when Amit Shah poured lies in the Indian Parliament.
By Joel Naga and Amai Chingkhu
Let the Naga public be reminded of the fact that BJP Nagaland (as well as NDPP, NPF) is yet to publicly correct, let alone question or condemn, the Home Minister Amit Shah’s fabricated statement in the Lok Sabha regarding the killing of 14 innocent Nagas at Oting on the December 4.
As the full scale of the massacre continues to unfold, the continued silence of BJP Nagaland and its frontal organisations on Mr. Shah’s condemnable statement have been absolutely deafening so far.
The Rising People’s Party (RPP) cannot help but contrast this episode with the recent uproar of BJP Nagaland and its Mahila and Yuva Morcha cells against the Punjab government for the security lapse which led to the PM Modi being stranded for 15 minutes in Ferozepur, Punjab.
The helter-skelter scenes of Nagaland BJP organisations and leaders trying to outdo each other in condemning the Channi government in Twitter, FB, and other social media platforms is perhaps part of the job, but what is un-digestible for the Naga public is that NONE of the same BJP organisations and leaders dared question their high command when Amit Shah poured lies in the Indian Parliament.
The double standard of BJP Nagaland has hurt the sentiments of every patriotic Naga and angered all right-thinking citizens as well. Perhaps, the BJP Nagaland thinks that “15 minutes is more important than 15 lives” and it seems to be on track.
Sycophancy and ‘nautanki’ have been part and parcel of Indian politics but Nagas in BJP seem to have taken it to another level.
(JOEL NAGA and AMAI CHINGKHU are members of the Rising People’s Party (RPP), Nagaland)