Ranajit Mukherjee, All India Congress Committee (AICC) Secretary i/c Nagaland, stated on Saturday that the Congress party, along with the rest of the civil societies and organisations, stands for immediate Naga political solution. However, if elections are inevitable then the Congress party is ready to face elections and exuded confidence that the electorate will grand us victory in the coming election, he added.
“The leadership has expressed it’s confidence in the PCC by sending such a senior team to Nagaland,” he said, talking about the observers and screening committee members appointed by the party chief Mallikarjun Kharge for Nagaland.
Speaking to press at Congress Bhavan in Kohima, Mukherjee also maintained that Congress party is the only opposing party to the BJP-NDPP combined currently in Nagaland today to expose both their hollowness through their deliberate non-implementation of the Solution for Nagaland as well as the complete lack of development over the last 5 years.
The Congress has floated to other like-minded parties the vision of a secular alliance to ensure that the machinations of the Hindutva forces do not take the backdoor entry into Nagaland, the party secretary said, adding that there are parties in conversation with the PCC President and it hope for a secular alliance but anyhow the party is ready to fight the election.
“If we have an alliance partner then obviously there will be a division of seats with the alliance partner but if we do not have an alliance partner then we will take a call on the 60 seats,” he stated.
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Mukherjee also informed the party manifesto is almost ready and that the Congress has been holding a series of in-house discussions adding that unlike other national parties like BJP, the Congress party does not promise what it cannot deliver hence the Congress party take its manifesto very seriously.
Furthermore, he said this time the Congress candidates will see a mixture of senior leaders and new faces. Women candidates are also in the pipeline, he added.
