The North-Eastern Congress(I) Coordination Committee has described the party’s success in the Mizoram election as “a positive disapproval of the politics of violence inciting ethnic, religious, linguistic and local conflicts.”
In a joint statement, four General Secretaries of the NECCC(I), Mr B B Dutta, Mr R K Jaichandra Singh, MP Mr Sainghaka MLA and Mr H K Bora have said that the poll verdict was “an event of great political significance as well as of historic importance.
The statement said “a battle has been going on between two forces – one upholding the unity and integrity of the nation and the other anti-Indian, divisive and fissiparous between constitutional politics promoting socialism, secularism and democracy and those of violence, parochialism, communalism and regionalism. It is this nature of conflict that has attracted the attention of the nation to Mizoram Elections.”
The party leaders hoped that “a new chapter” would be opened in the political history of Mizoram under the guidance of Mrs Indira Gandhi. They called upon the legislature party to make full use of its two-third majority in the House and take “bold and imaginative steps to bring peace in every Mizo home.”