Appeals organisations to allow ‘free and fair’ election
Kohima, January 28 (MExN): The Joint Action Committee on Women Reservation (JACWR) will now take up “necessary measures” to withdraw the Special Leave Petition from the Supreme Court of India before the elections to the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) are conducted on February 1. As decided in a meeting on January 26 at Hotel Japfu, the JACWR stated that it will honour the ‘Assurance Letter’ it received from the Government of Nagaland (Chief Minister’s Office) on January 28 to hold the ULB elections on schedule.
“In the interest of peace in the society, and taking due cognisance of appeals by various Naga Organisations,” the JACWR will make the “necessary legal preparation” to withdraw the SLP before the elections, stated the Committee’s Convenor Abeiu Meru and Co-Convenor Dr. Rosemary Dzuvichu in a press release today.
The JACWR also appealed to all “respected Organisations” to “allow the democratic process of a free and fair election to be held, for electing the respective Town councils in the state without any hindrance.”
It also appealed to the Nagaland State Government to “consider an early second phase of polls for those towns and candidates who were unable to file or had to withdraw their nominations.”
