KOHIMA: The Congress in Nagaland on Monday decided to raise the issues of corruption and law and order ahead of the Municipal polls scheduled tentatively in April.
A party release here said the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee(NPCC) and Congress Legislature Party(CLP) at a recent meeting here outlined these issues on which it would take on the ruling Naga People’s Front(NPF)-led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland(DAN).
Elections to four Municipal and 15 Town Councils might be held in April.
Incidentally, assembly polls are slated in 2013.
With 33 per cent reservation for women, candidates will be a definite indicator of the forthcoming assembly election in the state, Congress sources said.
‘The NPF ensured victory during previous elections through unconstitutional means of money and muscle power because of which the Congress has remained in the opposition for nine consecutive years,’ the release observed. Declaring its readiness to fight, the Pradesh Congress outlined its two chief planks, rampant corruption and glaring nepotism.
Other poll issues will be misuse of huge central funds and lack of development, economic stagnation and escalating unemployment, unabated extortion and soaring price rise. The situation in Eastern Nagaland is also making its presence felt in the political circles of Nagaland and may turn up to be another poll issue. (UNI)
