DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 22 (MExN): A consultative meeting between the Naga Hoho and the ENPO with the Naga Mothers Association and the Joint Action Committee on Women’s Reservation (JACWR) was held in Kohima to discuss the issue of municipal elections and women reservation.
A press note from the JACWR informed that thirty eight women leaders representing different tribe women organisations attended the meeting.
The NMA and JACWR while thanking the apex Naga Hoho and ENPO leaders for the invitation to a meeting, categorically made their position very clear that Naga women were ready for election and not nomination and that there was no question of withdrawing the case till the election dates are announced by the State Government.
In the second meeting held on December 19, between the NMA, JACWR and the various tribe Hoho leaders hosted by the Angami Public Organization, the Tribe Hoho Presidents again appealed women to consider nomination and not election and for withdrawal of the case. This meeting was attended by around forty women leaders of the different tribe women organisations from the NMA, ENWO and the JACWR.
The women leaders shared the history of the struggle for the women's right to reservation as per the Nagaland Municipal First Amendment Act and the importance of the Government decision to hold the elections with reservation for women.
It was conveyed with regret to the tribe Hohos in the meeting that the decision of Naga women will stand and that they will go for election not nomination. With the election dates announced, JACWR said that the purpose of going to the court for appealing to hold municipal election and women reservation will be fulfilled, by its implementation.
