Mon, February 13 (MExN): The NPF Mon division today “earnestly” requested the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) to call off the statewide bandh in the interest of general masses, government employees who mostly depend on salaries for livelihood, and students’ community.
A press release from NPF Mon division President L. Yanlong Konyak and General Secretary (Admn) Wango Konyak further criticized the “desperate handful of power hungry leaders taking the names of some matured tribals hohos for political motive by misleading the masses and calling it as the peoples' movement especially by convincing ignorant youth to come out in the street intimidating with false accusation towards the peoples' mandate DAN government.”
The NPF division also expressed surprise at the civil organizations’ rejection of the Judicial Inquiry Committee set up for the January 31 incident.
The release lamented that the “mastermind ringleaders” responsible for creating the “hand-made situation” in some towns of Nagaland taking the names of “matured tribals hohos” over the ULB elections has affected the daily routine of the general masses, government employees, and students.
It further maintained that the “fallacious” leaders took advantage of NPF led-DAN government’s leniency based on the party motto "Fide Non Armies". “The power hunger leaders acted deliberately beside true certainty,” it added.
Flaying the demand of “handful few leaders and agitators” for resignation of Chief Minister TR Zeliang on moral ground and refusal to attend the consultative meeting called by the CM on February 8, the release stated, “the so-called moral ground reason is best known only to them.”
The NPF Mon further alleged that the various church organizations in Nagaland misunderstood the “peace making process” by NBCC on January 30. “It was, no doubt, neither an MOU nor an agreement and not a final and binding but only a statement clearly written as, ‘subject to cabinet and state election commission decision’, which means election to ULB to be decided by the cabinet and state election commission,” the release said. Some church organizations, it lamented, “adamantly” sought apology from the government.
The NPF Mon division maintained that the State government conducted the ULB elections “which is a best way to protect its special provision 371-A granted to the Nagaland state.” Various tribal organizations, it claimed, endorsed the 33% reservation for women with 65% public opinion that Naga customary practices will not be affected by the said reservation.
“Now, where are the good Naga leaders who once analysed on 33% reservation and endorsed it in the print media? And now double speak about this issue. Isn't it politicizing?” the NPF Mon division posed.
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