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'NCP never to compromise on Sonia's foreigner status'

'NCP never to compromise on Sonia's foreigner status'

Author: PTI
Publication: The Free Press Journal
Date: August 5, 2003

NCP general secretary P A Sangma on Monday said the question of foreign origin of AICC President Sonia Gandhi and her disqualification to become the Prime Minister on this ground was very much a part of his party's national agenda and it would never compromise on it, reports PTI.

"We have never dropped the matter," he said on the sidelines of his visit here to congratulate Gegong Apang on assuming the chief Ministership of Arunachal Pradesh.

"We have been persistently saying that a person of foreign origin cannot be a Prime Minister of India.  This was said again at the NCP national executive at Kerana recently," he said when asked.

Sangma congratulated Gegong Apang on taking over the reins in Arunachal Pradesh and mooted the floating of an alliance of political parties to fight the perennial problems of insurgency, infiltration, and unemployment afflicting the North East.

"Unless the leaders of the North East fight jointly, the perennial problems of insurgency, infiltration and growing unemployment cannot be solved.  The new alliance would act as a pressure group to resolve these problems," Sangma said after meeting Apang here.

"The problems cannot be solved in isolation, it needs a joint effort by all concerned. . If steps to solve them were delayed the unity and integrity of the nation as a whole would be jeopardised,." he said.

He welcomed the participation of the national parties to join the alliance "since peace and stability of the region was the need of the hour".  The alliance would be floated on August 24 at a meeting of North East leaders at Sikkim House in New Delhi, he said, adding its provisional name "North East Peoples Alliance" would be adopted after ratification.

Chief Ministers of Sikkim, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, its Deputy chief Minister and secretary of its ruling UDF would participate in the meeting, he said.  Referring to the problem of infiltration from Bangladesh to the NE, he said, it had earlier been confined to Assam, but had now spread 'alarmingly' to the other states and Nagaland had become the first victim.
 


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