Dimapur NGOs ask DC to go ahead with no-confidence motion
Morung Express News
Dimapur | March 3
THE NAGALAND People’s Front high command will be arriving at a decision on the current Dimapur Municipal Council imbroglio soon. The party’s President, Dr Shürhozelie told The Morung Express that a pronouncement on the issue would be made after taking into consideration what the fact-finding team dispatched by him would state.
The President, who is also Planning and Coordination Minister, had earlier sent NPF heavyweights Blaise Iheilung, R Paphino and Pulozu to study the ground realities of the imbroglio.
DMC Chairperson Y Vikheho Awomi informed that the fact-finding team has already left Dimapur for Kohima and that a decision would be made soon. The top brass of the NPF will now decide whether the proposed no-confidence motion against the incumbent DMC chairperson should be allowed to take its course.
Meanwhile, showing concern for the current impasse in the Dimapur Municipal Council, the Naga Council based at Dimapur today convened a meeting where members of different civil societies and leaders of various tribal Hohos were invited. Speaker after speaker averred that the present entanglement should be unwound at the earliest possible time as the public is bearing the brunt of the mess. The conglomerate decided to issue a Joint Public Appeal to all DMC members to wriggle out an amicable solution within a short time frame. They also decided to ask Dimapur Deputy Commissioner KN Ngullie to “conduct the said meeting of 10th March as scheduled and in true democratic norms.” An appeal to the Chief Minister asking for his intervention into the matter is also to be made.
“That in the event of the impasse being unresolved despite the best efforts, the Government should consider the option of dissolution of the DMC. However, in order to avoid burdening the general public with a fresh election exercise, this option should be resorted to only after exhausting all possible avenues,” resolution number four said.
The general opinion, though, was that the public bodies comprising of NGOs cannot directly intervene in the proceedings as it is outside their purview.
A speaker opined, “If the civic body is sick, the people are also bound to fall ill.” Another said: “The problem persisted since the beginning (of the inception of DMC). Party lines should be crossed in the effort to improve the condition of the public.” Four resolutions were passed after the consultations.
