DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 9 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) held a meeting today and resolved on several points with regard to the ongoing turmoil concerning ULB elections in the state
A press note from the NTC, listing out its resolutions, urged the state government against seeking ordinance exemption from Part IX A of the Constitution of India, without proper preparation.
This, it stated “is found not advisable when there had been instances of ratification made to the Act of Municipal and Town Council by Nagaland in the recent past on public demand to modify, rectify and amend whichever Clause or language is found within the purview of State Govt of Nagaland to make necessary correction.” The state government, it said “must not feel very helpless to defend ourselves from incriminating and harmful Act.”
Asking for an official notification from the competent authority to declare the ULB election as null and void, the NTC further asserted that the state government must never have election under the Municipal and Town Council Act in the present form until it is ratified as above.
The NTC further accused the Nagaland CM of adopting several “anti-indigenous Nagas of Nagaland policies.” This, it claimed, includes the “Rongmei recognition and the attempt to recognize more tribes from outside Nagaland;” attempt to “sell out the basic rights of the citizens by creating cadastral areas in the foothills in order to give permanent settlement to non-indigenous people from outside Nagaland through Nagaland Special Development Zone (NSDZ);” the move to “barter away our revenue to non-indigenous outsiders and an attempt to rope the rightful land owners by way of making the State and non-indigenous people as land owner… as under Oil and Natural Gas Rules and Regulation Act of 2012;” and removal of suo-motto power of investigation from the State Vigilance Commission.
The NTC further stated that the determination of the CM to “cling into his Chair is the source of all frictions, confrontations and the mess we are in now.” It asked the CM to “realize the importance of the voices of the general public,” and “pave the way for peace and normalcy to return to state by demitting his office.”
It also asked the people of the state “not to be swayed by emotions if not by reasons,” and urged all to refrain from abetting violence under any circumstances. “Of all there must never be any more bloodshed henceforth,” it added.
The NTC meanwhile expressed concern over the block on social media and internet connectivity, which it stated is “depriving the students and unemployed educated youth of online services and other basic communication works which has become our daily usage.”
