NPF merger was on political grounds: Nagaland CM's Advisor

Advisor to Nagaland Chief Minister for Urban Development, S I Jamir today said the eight Congress legislators of the state assembly decided to merge with NPF considering all aspects of Naga Political Issue (NPI).
"In politics anything may happen anytime... Having served a particular party (Congress), including being the President through the best part of life, it was not a very easy decision (to join NPF), but considering all the aspects of NPI, we decided to merge with NPF," Jamir said.
He was addressing the first Central Executive Council (CEC) Meeting of Naga People's Front (NPF) here today after the 8 Congress MLA merged with the party on November 20 last.

"We decided to merge on political grounds," he said, adding that "when there was a problem within the NPF, we (Congress legislators) were approached to support a particular group and we extended our support and decided to stand by it."
He said in every election, the first manifesto for each party is solution of Naga political problem and it still stands valid.
The Naga political problem is above all the political constraints and "we look forward that through this union, solution will be quickened to some extent," he said.

Expressing that the NPF government has two more years to go before the next assembly elections, he said for the ruling party anti-incumbency factor is the main enemy.

Maintaining that there is only one way to overcome it, he said "we can do that through our performance."
"We have to brilliantly bring about development to the satisfaction of the people," he said and therefore called upon the NPF legislators to re-dedicate themselves to achieve the goal.
Erstwhile Presidents of JD(U) Mhonjan Humtsoe and NCP Er T L Semdok also spoke on similar lines and appealed to the NPF workers to re-dedicate themselves to strengthen the Party leadership.