NPF urges Rio to rejoin party in interest of Naga people

Dimapur, Sept. 7 -- The central executive council (CEC) of the Naga People's Front (NPF) resolved to make a formal and special appeal to Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio to rejoin the NPF and assume leadership of the party in the greater interest of the party and the Naga people.

Adopting a six-point resolution at the NPF central office in Kohima last evening, the CEC reaffirmed the earlier party central office bearers resolution dated February 12, inviting all former comrades of the NPF to return to the party.

The meeting said Rio, a strong regionalist and a senior member of the NPF, joined the party in 1974 as the youth president of Kohima division and later served as youth wing president, an NPF statement said.

It said the NPF cont...