DIMAPUR, MARCH 17 (MExN): The All Zeliangrong Students’ Union (AZSU) expressed happiness over the Cabinet’s decision to intervene in the Intangki issue saying that it was a very encouraging start but revealed that security cover for the National park was not the ‘say-all’ of the matter. “Of course we are happy at the decision but our demand is not only to protect Intangki” said a leader of the AZSU adding that the Union also planned to present the government with demands for total eviction of the land encroachers and also for the government to “stop recognition of new villages in our land.”
It may be added that the AZSU were supposed to present their demands in a memorandum to the government during the Dharna which was to be held today but had been postponed to March 19 in view of the Indian President’s visit. The AZSU leader also revealed that if the government continued to do nothing even after the Dharna, after consultation with their elders the Student’ Union might be compelled to take the law into their own hands. Meanwhile, Changkija, the DG of Police said that he was yet to receive any directions for the security of Intangki from the government saying such things would take some time to implement.
