Morung Express News
Dimapur | March 19
Nagaland’s legislators involved in the delimitation process today said those agitating against the exercise were expressing their views out of turn, before getting to the crux of the matter.
Making strict mention of terminology, Lok Sabha MP Wangyuh Konyak said the word ‘proposed’ should not be read as ‘proposal.’ He said the government had not sent a proposal but had only proposed certain points. “It is for the people to decide,” he told The Morung Express from his Delhi home. “It is not final.”
The ‘limited re-adjustments’ sought by the Delimitation Commission is for the “convenience of the people”, he said. Giving an example, he said Kuhuboto which falls under Ghaspani-II constituency, Congress MLA Rokonicha’s seat, causes grievances to the people there.
Wangyuh will be meeting the Chairman of the Delimitation Commission, Justice Kuldip Singh, and will be reaching Nagaland on March 24 where he will meet the Press.
Another Associated Member, Industries Minister Khekiho Zhimomi, said the situation was caused out of ‘excitement’ and that it did not solicit “so much alarm.”
He said delimitation exercises, if any, would be confined within respective districts. “The ball is in the court of the districts,” he said.
Elaborating on this, the Minister said the districts were at liberty on whether they wanted to be re-adjusted according to the population. The hue and cry sounded recently is thus “unnecessary”, he added. The minor readjustment is to the limit of 10% in the population.
Tiameren of the BJP, an elected member and also an Associated Member of the commission, said “the situation is very simple” but that “people have misunderstood.” Some members of the public and some organizations are not convinced and are still suspicious, he said, but was quick to add that the matter would be sorted out within 2-3 weeks’ time.
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