KOHIMA: The issues of law and order and corruption will be the two major poll planks of Congress in the upcoming municipal elections and next year’s Assembly polls in Nagaland, party sources said on Sunday.
The decision was taken at a meeting of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) on Saturday, they said. The party’s strategy to take on the Naga Peoples Front (NPF)-led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland(DAN), which has been in power since 2003, was the main point of discussion in the meeting.
NPCC outlined two poll planks; rampant corruption and glaring nepotism which has allegedly led to the misuse of central funds, caused lack of development, economic stagnation and unemployment.
The second is the alleged deteriorating law and order situation which has been responsible for the escalation in factional feuds and unabated extortion leading to sky rocketing prices of commodities, the sources said.
Municipal elections would be an indicator of next year’s Assembly polls, a statement of the resolutions adopted during the meeting, said.
The battle for the Assembly would begin in the upcoming elections to urban local bodies itself, it said, alleging that the NPF “ensured previous victories in every election through unconstitutional means of money and muscle power” for which Congress has remained in the opposition for past nine years.
Elections to four municipal councils and 15 town committees in the state are likely to be held in April and Assembly polls are due in early 2013. (PTI)
