Just days after it attacked the Narendra Modi government for not consulting Congress Chief Ministers from the North East while sealing the Naga Peace deal, the Congress is now left red faced.
The embarrassment came for the Congress as Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang told CNN-IBN that the state government was in consultations with the Centre for at least two months. Zeliang also said that local groups and civil society members were also part of the consultations, adding that the deal is this is just the framework and the picture will be cleared once the final settlement is reached.
Claiming that it was not correct that they were not consulted, Zeliang said, "The consultation was going on from last two months. The civil society and the local groups were also consulted, even met PM in personal."
He further said, "The interlocutor met me two to three times before the deal. The Assembly had also passed a resolution."
Meanwhile, the government earlier on Saturday launched a counter attack on the Congress saying its allegations were baseless and that it had held consultations with the state chief ministers.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said, "All the North East chief ministers of Arunanchal Pradesh, Meghalaya etc were happy with accord but one fine day they all were summoned to Delhi and they changed their stand on the direction of Sonia Gandhi. This is really unfortunate."
However, former MoS Homes RPN Singh continued to allege that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not take Northeast CMs on board.
This comes a day after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi questioned the secrecy of the accord. He also questioned how an interlocutor, and not government of India, could sign such a deal.
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