Nagaland should use developmental fund judiciously: BJP

Expressing concern over the precarious financial situation of Nagaland, the state BJP unit cautioned the state government that "generous funding from the NDA government will come about, only when it is convinced that the development funds are used for the purposes intended to develop the state".
"The present crisis is not something out of the blue but cumulative in nature; the main cause being the changed funding pattern since 1989," a release issued by BJP Nagaland president Dr M Chuba Ao here today said.
He maintained that the state till 1989 had enjoyed as one of the special category states in funding pattern, however the Congress government in Nagaland during that time failed to protect the state.

BJP also alleged that the UPA government in its decade rule had meted out step-motherly treatment in fund allocations to the State. The adverse Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) award during UPA regime was a glaring example of utter neglect, it said.
BJP Nagaland maintained that the DAN-III government being part of NDA family, the question of neglect does not arise only if we are honest to ourselves.
It said now, that a friendly government has come in the centre in which DAN-III is also a partner, BJP State Unit is confident that the NDA government will be sympathetic to the plight of the people of Nagaland.

Dr Chuba said that as the pre-poll alliance partner of the DAN-III government in Nagaland, BJP is doing everything under its power to ensure that the State's finance position is stabilized soon.
"The larger interest of the people is supreme and BJP takes the issue above petty party politics," BJP president said while also expressing the hope that very soon the State will receive generous fund from the Centre.