DIMAPUR, JULY 27 (MExN): The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Tribal Hohos on Delimitation has expressed hope that the legislators, both the ruling and the opposition parties in the State will ensure the “democratic values and constitutional obligation as members of a Constitutional body sworn-in under oath of allegiance to the Constitution of India.”
“The legislators know well that Delimitation process is an Act of Parliament that must be carried out, as stated by the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah and reiterated by Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio at RCEMPA. The State Assembly is duty-bound to abide by the Constitution of India always,” said a press release from the publicity cell of the JAC.
It said this while lauding the resolution taken by the PDA that “as members of the largest democracy in the world, it is bounden duty of everyone, especially the constitutional institutions, to uphold the spirit of democracy and to strengthen the democratic foundations of this great nation.”
The JAC acknowledged the resolution, adopted at the Chief Minister’s Residence, Kohima signed by Chingwang Konyak, Convener, PDA & President, NDPP and Minister Temjen Imna Along, Co-Convener, PDA & President BJP Nagaland, “as a truly political acumen of the PDA leadership.”
It meanwhile affirmed to stand by the “democratic principles of equality and justice enshrined in the Constitution of the country.”
