Dimapur, November 3 (MExN): Payment of land tax to Beisumpuikam by Lilen village is out of question and is just a mythology since the concern Kuki villages have been legally established since many decades past having demarcated village boundaries from the government, declared a Gaon Bora of Lilen village today.
“To be precise, the concerned Kuki Villages- Lilen, Phaijol, Pellhang etc are those legally established villages since decades of years past, having well demarcated village boundaries from Government,” said GB of Lilen Village, Thangmang Hangsing, in a press statement.
The assertion of the GB comes in the backdrop of a press statement by the Zeme Council Nagaland President Raitu Zeme on November 1, where the ZCN President had stated that ‘Lilen village has been paying land tax (Rampwa) to Beisumpuikam which is manifested in letter and spirit’.
“Earlier it had been revealed that the Hon’ble Guwahati Court had passed a judgment in favour of Lilen Village in the matter of land dispute with Beisumpuikam which need not be elaborated time and again as such, the question of paying land tax (Rampwa) to Beisumpuikam by Lilen Village is out of question, it is just a mythology,” Hangsing asserted.
The release also stated that in the matter of the ‘so called land exchanged between Beisumpuikam and State Forest Department’, the secret deal started way back since 1993 and that the affected villages were put in the dark till the State Cabinet took decision in 1995.
“We are in the process of seeking justice with appropriate authority,” the GB said, “In any case, we will no more remain mute spectators for such violations of our rights.”
However, the GB of Lilen Village also made it amply clear that, above all, they want peace, justice and peaceful co-existence with others.
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