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 Dimapur, APRIL 27 (NPN):The Nagaland unit of BJP has decided to submit a memorandum to party central leadership expressing resentment against party national president Rajnath Singh's call to all BJP-ruled States for enacting the anti-conversion laws on the line of Rajasthan.
The party took a decision towards this effect at an emergency meeting attended by senior leaders and held in Kohima on Thursday. Talking to Nagaland Post, BJP Nagaland unit president and Parliamentary Secretary M.C. Konyak said the party would take up the matter with Central leaders in Delhi soon. He said the State unit had decided to convey its strong resentment against such directives made by the national president as it would go against the interest of the people, especially those who were from the Northeast. Konyak said the BJP constitution says "the party aims at establishing a democratic State which guarantees to all citizens irrespective of castes, creed or sex, political, social and economic justice, equality of opportunity and liberty of faith and _expression". He said imposition of ban on conversion was unacceptable to the minorities adding such act would go against the Constitutional tenets and spirit of democracy. The BJP leader maintained that national interest and welfare of the minorities should be safeguarded as enshrined in the Constitution. Rajnath's open call had purportedly also irked several BJP leaders in the Northeast. A BJP leader from Nagaland requesting anonymity told Nagaland Post that the party should adopt separate policies for the Northeast. He said the BJP should come out with separate policies given that Northeast is the abode of hundreds and thousands of Christian minorities. He maintained that BJP had failed miserably to instill confidence in the minds of the minorities in Northeast. Meanwhile, the NPF expressed "anguish" over the Anti-Christian Bill and further lauded Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio for his "bold and timely" letter to President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in connection with the Bill. Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com/statedesc.asp?sectionID=10933
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