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NPF snapping ties with the BJP : Likely political repercussions

TR Zeliang makes a come back as the Chief Minister of Nagaland. Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu shown the door. TR Zeliang reportedly expelled from the NPF soon after taking oath as the Chief Minister of Nagaland and certainly the political situation seems to be fluid. Adding to the drama is the decision or rather the announcement […]

Nagaland: Representation submitted to the Governor of Nagaland by the Naga People’s Front Central, Youth Wing

At the outset, we wish to appreciate the concern and goodwill you have been showing to the Naga people and the people of the Northeast ever since you took over the gubernatorial post. Your numerous efforts to bring the Northeast into the national mainstream, and also to familiarise the people from the mainland with the […]

Nagaland political crisis deepens, CM sacks four Ministers

Kohima, July 09 2017: The crisis within Nagaland’s Naga People’s Front (NPF) Government has further deepened with Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu on Sunday sacking four top Ministers and 10 Parliamentary Secretaries following a demand for his removal. Liezietsu recommended Governor PB Acharya to remove Home Minister Yanthungo Patton, Power Minister Kipili Sangtam, National Highway and […]

Split Looms In BJP-NPF Coalition In Nagaland; New Partnership Likely To Emerge

Former CM Nephiu Rio is also likely to form his own party and forge a new partnership with the BJP following rumours of a secret meeting with BJP national chief Amit Shah. With Nagaland state assembly elections likely to be held in February 2018, coalition partners Naga People’s Front (NPF) and (BJP) seem to have […]

More than a ‘courtesy call’ Capitalise on the initiative

It is up to Chief Minister of Manipur N Biren Singh and his Nagaland counterpart Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu to make their first meeting at Imphal on May 9 more than a ‘courtesy call.’ The call is also in line with the fact that the NPF, which is heading the Government in Nagaland is a partner […]

NPF stands for inclusiveness for solution

Chief Minister Nagaland and NPF President Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu said that even as the NPF party stands for early solution to the Naga political problem which is honorable and acceptable to all sections of the society and that it supports the Framework Agreement arrived at between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) on […]

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Decks cleared for counting today Possibility of hung House

D day is here (March 11). Even before the readers read the 11th March, 2017 edition of The Sangai Express with their morning cuppa, all decks would have been cleared to count the votes cast on March 4 and March 8 as well as in the repolls conducted across many polling stations. As notified by […]

NPF legislators support TR and Shurho

In what can be seen as rallying of forces behind the former Chief Minister TR Zeliang, several NPF legislators today confirmed that TR still enjoys the support of the Assembly but that he was compelled to step down from his chair by violent mobs who demanded his resignation within a specific period of time and […]

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Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee lambasted NPF for misleading people, asking their claim of how Zeliang’s “supreme sacrifice” turning into minority tribal card

KOHIMA, Mar 3 (NEPS): Opposition Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has lambasted the ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) for misleading the people, asking as to how they called TR Zeliang’s resignation as “supreme sacrifice” when he publicly stated that he was dislodged from the Chief Minister’s post as he belonged to a minority tribe. In […]

NPF on NPCC vitriolics

The attention of the NPF has been drawn to certain remarks of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee which appeared in a section of the local media this morning wherein the speech of the former Chief Minister TR Zeliang at Tamenglong district headquarter the other day was criticised. The truth is bitter, and it is more […]

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NPF Election campaigns at Tamenglong

I have no regrets vacating my chair: TR Former Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang said he has no regrets of vacating the chair of Chief Minister after “some elements resorted to violent means demanding him to step down” saying he has handed over the chair to a person who loves the party and the people […]

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Former CM of Nagaland says Blockade creation of Ibobi

Former Chief Minister of Nagaland and present Chairman of DAN Coordination Committee TR Zeliang said the ongoing blockade in Manipur is the handiwork of the Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh and that to lift it or to let it continue depends on him alone. Addressing an election rally this morning at Senapati, Zeliang said when […]

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Zeliang’s speech draws flak from MNPF

IMPHAL, Oct 22 : The Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF) said the speech delivered by Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang at the 1st Manipur Naga Village Authorities Conference that was held at Tagaramphung Yaikanpao village on October 19, sowed seeds of disunity among Manipur Nagas and communal crisis in Manipur.

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MLA Ibomcha files FIR against TR Zeliang

IMPHAL, Oct 21 : Taking strong exception to the speech of Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang at the Yaikongpao (Tagaramphung) Naga village authorities conference on October 19, Keishamthong AC MLA L Ibomcha Singh has filed an FIR against the Nagaland C…

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Ibobi tongue lashes TR Zeliang Learn the history of Manipur and NE : CM

IMPHAL, Oct 20: Chief Minister Okram Ibobi has stated that Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang has been ruling Nagaland at the diktats of an organisation based in Nagaland.
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IMPHAL, Oct 20: Chief Minister Okram Ibobi has stated that Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang has been ruling Nagaland at the diktats of an organisation based in Nagaland.

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Yaikongpao meet resolves to defend land rights

IMPHAL, Oct 19 : With Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang as chief guest, a conference of the Naga village authorities of Manipur was held today at Yaikongpao Ground, Sadar Hills, Senapati district.
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IMPHAL, Oct 19 : With Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang as chief guest, a conference of the Naga village authorities of Manipur was held today at Yaikongpao Ground, Sadar Hills, Senapati district.

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TR Zeliang to attend grand meeting

IMPHAL, Oct 18: Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang will attend a grand meeting scheduled tomorrow at Yaikhongpao village of Kangpokpi sub-division where the Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and NSCN-IM would be deliberated.
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Nagaland: Former Speaker Lohe lambasted Zeliang for disrespecting local sentiments

KOHIMA, Aug 25 (NEPS): Former Nagaland Assembly Speaker Z Lohe lambasted the TR Zeliang Government for relentlessly pursuing for setting up of “Rani Gaidinliu Memorial Museum or Statue” here at

KOHIMA, Aug 25 (NEPS): Former Nagaland Assembly Speaker Z Lohe lambasted the TR Zeliang Government for relentlessly pursuing for setting up of “Rani Gaidinliu Memorial Museum or Statue” here at the State capital, Kohima much against the wishes of the citizens of the State.

Talking to NEPS here on Tuesday, the veteran politician questioned the very motive of Chief Minister Zeliang for his going ahead with the proposals of setting up of “Rani Gaidinliu’s Memorial” centers at Kohima in the midst of oppositions from all the quarters.

Lohe said Nagas were Christians and Zeliang himself was basically a Christian. “How can he (Zeliang) worship Rani Gaidinliu who was a cult leader,” he asked. He also questioned as to how a building can be dedicated to a “cult leader” and where was the relevance here in Nagaland.

“In fact, we have so many Naga pioneers like AZ Phizo, Dr Imkongliba, P Shilu Ao, to name a few, and without whose leadership and sacrifices, people of Nagaland would not have come this far,” Lohe stated and said, “It will only be befitting to have any memorial statues or museums or institutions in their names in our State.”

The Government should respect the sentiments of the people because going ahead with such proposals to the extent of setting up a statue, museum, etc. in the name of a cult leader at the cost of indigenous local people was tantamount to disrespecting their sentiments and generations, Lohe asserted. “Such moves are nothing but a big insult to the people of Nagaland,” he said.

The former Nagaland Assembly Speaker, who was also Adviser to former Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, also alleged that Zeliang had no any other interests but to make money out of such proposals with the support of Center where the BJP was at the helm of affairs. There were anxieties that the RSS would take advantage from the present development in Nagaland in order to promote their Hindu ideology. “But we cannot allow this thing to happen in Nagaland,” he stated.

Unpredictable political future looming in Nagaland

By Oken Jeet Sandham Now that the NPF crisis has been resolved, the general expectation is development should start taking place in the state. Precious one year has been wasted

By Oken Jeet Sandham

Now that the NPF crisis has been resolved, the general expectation is development should start taking place in the state. Precious one year has been wasted when Chief Minister TR Zeliang was struggling to save his moribund Ministry.

But all is not going well as dissident leaders could not get back their earlier Ministerial positions even after “Reconciliation” with leaders of NPF (S). This, no doubt, will give a stinging push to the dissident leaders and their colleagues to think manifold politically for a different game in the coming Nagaland Assembly elections due in 2018 if nothing happens in between.

The people have immensely lost their confidence in their representatives this time. They saw how the state government was kept in suspense, and at some point of time, near revolt from the publics were expected when they failed to meet their representatives who remained like captives in different camps.

The other National Political parties like BJP, JD (U) and NCP had no role during the crisis because it was NPF crisis only. The BJP in Nagaland, however, did not keep quiet during the crisis as they realized Zeliang’s clandestine deal with the opposition Congress for securing his “Confidence Motion.” Even after the “Confidence Motion,” the BJP created massive psychological fear that they would not be able to go together with the Congress in the DAN government because of hugely different political ideologies between them. Zeliang inducted the Congress legislators into his Ministry with an explanation that it was their dream to have an “opposition-less” government in the state for the sake of finding permanent and honorable solution to the protracted Naga political issue.

The people of Nagaland had not questioned beleaguered TR when his government remained paralyzed due to unprecedented NPF crisis except urging them to resolve the issue for the larger interest of the people. They were tolerant enough till such time the party leaders resolved the internal crisis of their party. They did not mind of seeing no development during the past one-year shaky rule of the Zeliang ministry.

The people will not, however, go into raptures about such political gimmicks, dramas and canards. They are rather more informed with the ongoing crisis and the status of the Naga political issue. They simply watch the whole tamasa, waiting for the next Assembly elections in the state.

Former Chief Minister and present Member of Parliament Neiphiu Rio ruled Nagaland for eleven years and it will be, of course, not fair comparing with one-year rule of Zeliang. The latter has been in turmoil ever since he took over the reins of government from the former, but one cannot predict, of course, what he can deliver to the people in the coming days as Chief Minister.

Yet, Rio remained undisputed leader in the state and what prompted him to leave the state politics at the beginning of his third tenure as Chief Minister still remains mysterious. To push the early settlement of the Naga political issue and bring more developmental funds to the state were some of his main explanations for going to Delhi as MP. But these reasons were inadequate. He was accused of being the main person for the NPF crisis.

Surprisingly, the people seem more concerned for the next Assembly elections than development. And many siting legislators seem to be feeling uneasiness but clueless. The unusual political environment starts creeping in everywhere stirring many youngsters to come to the fore.

In all the elections in the state, the political parties prominently figured the Naga political issue in their election manifestoes with assurances of their roles for bringing settlement to the issue. Four Nagaland Assembly elections were held after the Government of India declared ceasefire with the NSCN (IM) and in all these elections, all the political parties gave importance for expediting the Naga peace process and early solution to the issue. Yet, solution to the Naga political issue remains elusive and the Government of India still fails to give a time frame for the final settlement to the Naga political issue.

It appears that the people start losing their hope in the leaderships of the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) as none of them is able to provide credible status of their progress.

New political parties may surface to join the next unpredictable Assembly electoral battles and likely to eat into the vitals of other established political parties. The youth, forming major vote shares, will play all in good time, and there may be drastic reduction of money politics in the next Assembly elections. The Naga issue may not attract the youth much in the next Assembly elections as they realize that various political parties have been playing Naga political issue card as election plank.

Bottom Line:

Chief Minister alone cannot guarantee for the return of his party. It is a team work but the most fractured among the political parties in the state is his only. Although he proudly advocates the concept of his new mysterious political chemistry as “opposition-less or party-less” government, it is just a gimmick, drama and canard as this will not work at the time of Assembly elections because everyone has to file nomination as official candidate of their respective political parties. At the same time, every legislator will have to see his party’s interest is protected and nurtured and they cannot go against the party interest and ideology.

Can all sitting sixty legislators contest the coming Nagaland Assembly elections as “Independent” as per the “theory and mysterious political concept of TR”? No way. If they do this, Election Commission of India (ECI) will freeze the “Cock” Symbol of NPF.

I will leave here with wisdom from Norman Vincent Peale – “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or our failure.”

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