DIMAPUR, AUGUST 17 (MExN): The Ao Senden today opposed the recent decision of the Nagaland State Cabinet on 33 % Women reservation in Urban Local Bodies/Town Councils, and stated that the Municipal Act is “totally in contrary to the Indian constitution Article 371 (A).” A press note from the Ao Senden said that reservation as contained in the act is “is totally against the Ao custom wherein there is no male or female different status.” “It is very disheartening to see our Ao women folks drawn to sink down to 2nd class status by the State government,” the Ao Senden further stated. It therefore made clear that the Ao Senden “had totally opposed since the beginning and will never accept the above stated acts to be implemented in the near future too in our Ao land till the said clause is deleted and our demand is fulfilled.”
