Dimapur: Nagaland Congress has slammed the state unit of BJP and adviser H Tovihoto Ayemi for allegedly coercing Congress candidate of Ward no 7 Kanili kinilimi to withdraw her candidature from the upcoming Dimapur Municipal Council polls in exchange for a nominated member’s berth in the civic body.
Nagaland is going for the urban local body elections on June 26.
Condemning what it called blatant abuse of power by Ayemi and the Nagaland BJP, the Congress, on Tuesday (June 18), said such “undemocratic practices” aimed at subverting the will of the people should not be tolerated and should be denounced in the strongest possible terms by all right-thinking citizens.
The Nagaland Congress urged the State Election Commission (SEC) and the Nagaland government to take up the matter in all seriousness and initiate necessary action for prompt delivery of justice and win back the confidence of the electorate of the affected ward and the state in general.