Party Youth wing conducts Concourse in Mokokchung
Morung Express News
Mokokchung | May 25
Veteran Naga politician Dr. SC Jamir said today that he is hopeful that the much talked about solution to the Naga political problem would be arrived at before the 2019 Lok Sabha general elections. He said this while talking to scribes after addressing an NPF rally at Ungma, Mokokchung that was organized to campaign for C. Apok Jamir, the NPF candidate for the ensuing MP bye-election.
When asked why he participated in the NPF rally today, the party that dethroned him from the helm of Nagaland state politics, Jamir said that he believed in secularism and that he had participated against communalism. He added that all secular parties had joined together to support C. Apok Jamir, who also happens to be his son. “As we all know, blood is thicker than water,” he said.
Earlier, while addressing the rally dubbed NPF Youth Concourse Mokokchung and organized by NPF 27 Mokokchung Town AC Youth Wing, held at Bapu Tzüpo Amphitheatre, Ungma, Jamir said that he was attending the concourse as an elderly citizen of the country and a leader of yesteryears speaking the language of the 21st century.
He also said that the bye-election was an all-important election for Nagas as a new dawn was coming to Nagaland in the form of the political settlement in the best interest of the Naga people. He said that Naga people must now question themselves about the post-settlement Nagaland and called upon the people to vote for the NPF candidate.
NPF Star Campaigner, Kuzholuzo Nienu while addressing the concourse said that elections should not be held along tribal lines and that Nagas needed a paradigm shift to put God first before anything else. Alleging that secularism was replaced by communalism, he called upon the Naga people to vote for NPF counter such trend.
Accusing the dominant party at the Centre of trying to delete Article 25 of the Indian Constitution, he said that Nagas should rise up to the occasion and prove to the world that “they stood for secularism.” While saying that the NPF candidate C. Apok Jamir should be voted for all the good reasons, he asserted that he is going to win the bye-election. The party would be leading in at least 6 districts and that Mokokchung would be the “deciding” district, Azo predicted.
NPF Working President Huska Yepthomi also spoke at the concourse alleged that the People’s Democratic Alliance government in Nagaland was a “tiger in sheep’s clothing” as it was “controlled by the BJP high command in Delhi.”
The concourse was attended by NPF workers from all the assembly constituencies as well as the leaders of the Mokokchung district Congress party. NPF Mokokchung Division Youth Wing president Imtisungkum, 26 AC NPF Youth president Tinu Imsong, Kaheli Chophy and Zehovire Avi Kechü were the other speakers who addressed the concourse.
