Dimapur, August 7 (MExN): The “GPRN/NSCN” today said to have “invited” the Dimapur Municipal Council and Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and in a meeting on August 5, discussed what was stated to be measures to curb “anti-social elements,” taxation and similar matters. On August 5, the ‘ato kilonser’ N Kitovi Zhimomi invited the DMC and DCC at its designated camp at Khehoi for “free, open and cordial meeting” during which the “people’s sentiments” and “situation” with “special reference” to Dimapur’s business community was conveyed.
According to a note from the MIP, Zhimomi assured the business community of taking “measures” to curb “anti-social elements” who are “posing as national workers” and “threatening prospective investors in our land.” He asserted that non-Naga organizations shall not be allowed to “burden the public” with what the MIP note called “taxation” or to “intimidate the business fraternity in Nagaland.” “There are anti-Naga agents whose sole aim is to cripple the Naga people’s economy and undermine the people’s political movement. GPRN shall not be a silent spectator against these elements” the note quoted.
The MIP note further quoted him as ‘assuring’ that “all young Naga entrepreneurs” undertaking new business ventures shall be encouraged and exempted from the “purview of taxes.” The MIP further quoted Zhimomi as staying was that “the non-Naga communities, who have entrenched themselves with the Nagas for several decades, traversing and contributing towards the socio-economic and political progress of the Nagas, shall be accorded certain status in the Naga society, although they can never become Nagas yet they shall be acknowledged nonetheless.”
He claimed that there are “many Nagas who reside in other countries accepting and offering utmost respect for the customs and traditions of their new environment” and so “all non-Nagas who have adopted Nagaland as their home temporarily or permanently must also be accepted by us provided they observe and respect the Naga customs and traditions, social, political and historical issues of the Naga people.”
The MIP stated that the ‘ato kilonser’ has “called upon all Naga citizens to come forward and extend their respective help and support to unite the Nagas with moral and emotional conviction so that our aspired goal of resolving the protracted Indo-Naga-Burma political imbroglio is realized.” He concluded by stating, “Our coming together yesterday was the beginning; Today, we are staying together which are good signs of progress; and our working together would ultimately bring to us success.”
