The Congress party on Sunday demanded Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation over the Nagaland firing incident earlier this month. The opposition party also demanded that the victims be compensated and asked for an independent probe headed by a sitting Gauhati High Court judge.
The opposition party made the demands after a delegation, comprising Congress general secretary Jitendra Singh, the party’s Nagaland in-charge Ajoy Kumar and MP Gaurav Gogoi visited the Dibrugarh Medical College to interact with the relatives of those injured earlier this month in the aftermath of the incident, and submitted a report to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
In its report, the Congress delegation demanded Shah’s resignation, alleging that the incident in Nagaland was a continuation of the “failed policy” of the BJP government in the Northeast.
“This unfortunate episode once again displayed a massive intelligence failure and therefore a failure of the home ministry. In addition to this, the home minister was addressing political gatherings in Rajasthan rather than giving the situation in Nagaland its due attention, another example of the step child treatment the government has shown towards the Northeast,” the report alleged.
The opposition also demanded that the victims of the violence in Mon should be compensated by the central government and the families of the deceased should be given compensation of Rs 1 crore and a job with the government.
In addition, the party in its report demanded an independent probe by a sitting Gauhati High Court judge.
“The SIT that has been announced by the government of Nagaland is an eyewash and the Congress party believes that no meaningful resolution is possible as evidenced by the government’s false statements in the aftermath of the incident in Mon,” the report stated.