Using kids in electioneering - Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: April 05, 2014 - In the ongoing election Tamasha of the upcoming 16th Lok Sabha election, an interesting development has emerged between Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio, the star campaigner of the Nagaland-based Naga Peoples Front (NPF) and some political parties and their leaders in Manipur over the alleged hate-speeches of the former delivered during the election campaigns of his party candidate for the Outer seat. If Rio has denounced Ibobi, the Chief Minister of the Congress-led Manipur Government as the greatest enemy of the Nagas, the latter has dubbed his Nagaland counterpart as a real trouble-maker who is hell-bent on creating an unbridgeable chasm between the Meeteis and Naga communities in the State. Engaging in a verbal war or filing complaints to ECI at this juncture is not going to help in any way other than aggravating the fully charged hate situation in the State. More than crying for action against the alleged hate speeches of Rio, which are of their own making; opening their eyes and taking up the issue of forcing school children to leave their classrooms for lining up the thoroughfares of Ukhrul town with NFP flags in hands to wave at Rio when he arrived for an election rally on April 1 would have made more sense. Read full @ goo.gl/gQLhNJ
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 02:48:29 +0000
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