ITANAGAR: The newly constituted North East Regional Political Front (NERPF), a conglomerate of 10 regional parties, has resolved to jointly fight Delhi-based national parties in the forthcoming Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
"With the formation of the NERPF, the strategy followed by national parties like Congress and BJP to remain in power through a divide-and-rule policy and by threatening to impose President's Rule in the northeastern states will no longer work," the Peoples' Party of Arunachal (PPA) said in a statement here.
PPA's chief ministerial candidate Laeta Umbrey and working president Kahfa Bengia, who represented the state at a meeting of the front in Dimapur, said the NERPF has resolved to put up a united front against all the Delhi-based parties in the ensuing Parliamentary and assembly elections in the northeast.
The views expressed by PPA on the refugee problem, particularly that of Chakmas and Hajongs, and interstate boundary disputes and the need for abolition of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, were unanimously endorsed by the forum chaired by Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio.
Rio is the convener of the forum.
The forum also endorsed the view expressed by Bengia on racial discrimination meted out to the people of the northeast, especially students and the working class, the party claimed.
Both convener Rio and chief adviser Prafulla Kumar Mahanta of AGP assured their fullest cooperation in ensuing Parliamentary and assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh due next year, the statement added.
~TOI
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