KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 23 (MExN): The Naga Hoho today made strong objection to the motion introduced at 14th session of 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) regarding 33% women Reservation in Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) on November 22.
On the first day of the current session, a motion was moved by Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs, Economics & Statistics, R Tohanba, for revoking the September 22, 2012 resolution passed under Article 371A (1)(a) exempting Nagaland from the application of Part IX A of the Constitution of India. NLA Speaker, Chotisuh Sazo said the consideration and passing of this resolution will be taken up on November 24.
“This exercise is not less than undermining the voice of the people in the state,” the Naga Hoho said in a statement issued by its communication cell.
It lamented that the strong opinions of the civil societies and all Tribe Hohos opposing the Municipal Act of 2001 and 33% women reservation as a “simple replication of other states in the mainland have fallen on deaf ears.”
It further argued the non-existence of opposition in the present NLA does not entail the strangulation of the voices of the people concerned about “protecting their rights.”
Expressing strong apprehension that the state government is too “hasty” to implement the Municipal Act of 2001 and 33% women reservation, it said that such action would “create only chaos” resulting in creation of an “unmanageable situation.”
In this regard, the Naga Hoho made its “last appeal” to the Members of the present NLA to consider the “vital social issue” with all seriousness before passing the “resolution for revocation of the resolution adopted on 22nd September, 2012.”
It is bound to bring severe “social unrest and disharmony” among different Naga tribes for which “the 14th session of the 12th NLA shall be held responsible,” it cautioned.
