Morung Express News
Dimapur | December 20
A letter purportedly written by Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang announcing that he along with the whole team of cabinet minister has tendered resignation with immediate effect send social networking sites particularly WhatsApp into a delirium on Wednesday.
The letter addressed to the Nagaland Governor with the chief minister’s letter head and his signature stated, “In pursuance to the resolutions adopted in the Assembly and owing to strong public demand to resign for paving the way to bring early settlement of Naga Political issue, I hereby along with my whole team of Cabinet Ministers tender resignation with immediate effect.”
While the letter was apparently a fake, commentator had a field day with speculations and discussions rife on a number of social networking sites.
The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in the evening clarified that the letter was fake and the signature forged. It also filed an FIR with Kohima Police seeking immediate action to investigate and arrest the perpetrator of the act.
The CMO said it considers the act as very serious and amounts to cyber crime as also spreading rumours with an objective to create confusion and cause unrest in the society. “This is mischievous, malafide and has been done with a criminal intent,” it stated in the FIR.
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