Mon, March 26 (MExN): The Mopong Hongkong Educated Unemployed Youth (MHEUY) is organising the Aoleang festival 2017 at its HQ Mopong with the theme ‘Social and cultural awakening’. Khekaho Assumi, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources and Sports, Nagaland will be the chief guest on April 1. A press release from A. Moba Konyak, General Secretary, MHEUY informed that all the students' unions of Mopong Hongkong, village councils, GBs' association, KNSK and KU (Mopong unit) will be participating in the event along with the rest of Mopong Hongkong youth. Highlights of the event include cultural song and dance (both women and men), beating of log drum, and traditional folklore to be performed by the KNSK Mpong unit. The motive behind the celebration, according to the release, is to “preserve and promote the rich cultural and traditional value, to motivate and strengthen the unity and integrity of the people of the area and to rebuild the fragmented society, and to give away the social indifferences in all aspects.” The organisers while extending warm welcome to one and all have also appealed to all the gazetted officers of Mopong Hongkong, intellectuals and invitees to attend the celebration and make it a grand success.
