Phek, June 5 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) President, K Therie has said that the 16-Point Agreement signed between Government of India and NPC has fulfilled self-determination to a great extent. Speaking at a public meeting organized by Chozuba Range Public Organization on June 1 at Vamuzo Memorial Town Hall, Chozuba, he added that the discussion that is going on between Naga national workers and GoI should not be a mystery to Naga people.
“The mandated government should know what is being discussed, participate and support the discussion by understanding what is good for the Nagas and what is not,” Therie said, according to a press release from Media Cell, NPCC.
The NPCC President also lamented that many schemes from outside the state plan have been misused and that the real beneficiaries are not getting their share as was envisioned by the past Congress Government at the centre, the release said.
On the ‘Clean Election’ call of NBCC, he said it failed in implementation and that was perhaps the reason the Congress while trying to follow that principle failed in the 2013 general election. He expressed the need for people to nurture clean hearts which can only be cultivated from within and called for a “government that is not corrupted, does not believe in money power and does not cheat people and a government that believes in moral and ethical rights and clean, good governance, be given a chance.”
Therie also remembered the Chozuba assembly constituency's past leaders and said that the need of the people today is honesty and moral liberty. Emphasizing on the need for moral and ethical values in electing good leaders, he elucidated on the leadership in Chakhesang area that Chozuba constituency has produced and said that freedom of decision making was also important in life.
Former MLA and AICC member Lanpha Konyak exhorted the meeting and said that Christianity came to the Chakhesang comparatively earlier and that the Chakhesang community had elected clean leaders in the past. He therefore urged the community not to let money power be the agent for election in future and also appealed to the gathering to pray for the Nagas as the state is lagging behind in all spheres.
Also addressing the meeting, President, DCC, Mon, Chingwang Konyak urged the people of Chozuba Range to “prayerfully elect” a corruption-free leader who has a clean heart to work for the future of the Nagas and called for the proper implementation of NBCC’s guidelines on Clean Election.
The meeting was hosted by 18th Chozuba ACCC led by its President, Ketipra, who is also a PCC member.
