Chumukedima, January 7 (MExN): The Chumoukedima Village Council (CVC) has reiterated its earlier warning against filing nomination for the Urban Local Body elections.
In a statement, the Village Council reminded of a combined meeting it had with leaders of 16 Tribal Units of Chumoukedima on January 2, 2017 during which it had resolved not to allow any individual or party to file nominations. According to the resolution, anyone who violates the resolution shall be forced to leave Chumoukedima area.
If candidates who have filed nomination papers do not withdraw, the resolution taken in the meeting “shall be implemented/imposed in spirit”, the Village Council warned.
Stating that those candidates who have filed nominations have “willfully violated” the public resolution, the CVC maintained that no one will be allowed to function from the Chumoukedima Town Council office as council member until the issue is settled by the state government with all the frontal Naga bodies viz., Naga Hoho, ENPO, NTC, Ao Senden, Sumi Hoho, APO etc.
“The Chumoukedima Public shall not regard them as Public leaders or Town Council members,” the CVC maintained while adding that the whole public of Chumoukedima fully stands behind intending candidates who upheld the "public resolution".
Meanwhile, the CVC alleging “discretion” has flayed the shifting of centre for submitting nomination papers of Chumoukedima to Dimapur. Enquiring whether the Nagaland Municipal Election Rule empowers the EAC or the Returning Election Officer to shift the centre, the Council questioned why the EAC Chumoukedima issued the notification only for the last day i.e., January 7.
