Dimapur: The NPF has promised to build a "a resurgent Nagaland" if voted to power for the fourth consecutive time.

NPF president Shürhozelie Liezietsu released the election manifesto, Mission Transform Nagaland, on Wednesday and said it was not a mere wish list but contains points which the party considers it can fulfil.

Besides supporting an early resolution of the Naga political issue, the NPF assured to "institute a separate peace subvention fund" for providing support to efforts aimed at expediting the solution. The party will vigorously and persistently work on a "mission model" to facilitate an honourable solution.

The focus would also be on preserving and strengthening Naga identity, review the application of Naga customary laws and practices and bring in adequate legislative measures to strengthen and empower the administrative and judicial functions of the village councils and protection of traditional rights.

The NPF also said "cleansing the process of governance from corruption" will be a priority and constitution of an administrative and financial reforms commission. "Corruption of all kinds, especially misuse, misappropriation and siphoning off of precious state resources, unjustified cost escalation of projects and payments made against ghost schemes and employees will be dealt with firmly as per law and serious corruption cases with prima facie proof will be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to bring the culprits to book," the manifesto said.

It also dwelt on the continuous leadership crisis in the NPF and said "during the 12th House of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, many elected members swung back and forth, subjecting the state to a traumatic phase of instability and uncertainty, compelling some of their own cohorts on a new political platform to comment and declare this was 'the worst government in the history of Nagaland' with 'no sign of governance'".

"The NPF, now refined, if given the mandate by the people, will initiate drastic and effective amendments to the provisions of The Members of Nagaland Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on the Ground of Defection) Rules, 2003, to ensure that the intents and objectives of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution are fully protected and applied without any ambiguity, and that it becomes next to impossible for self-seeking Nagaland legislators to hold the people's mandate in hostage by twisting the rules of 2003 to suit their own selfish interests. We will put a strong check on the politics of sheer opportunism," it said.