DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 8 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Action Committee (NTAC) today asked the Nagaland Chief Minister to clarify on his earlier statements that the present issue has gone beyond 33%, and that there are vested interest and politics in play.
A press statement from the NTAC asked the CM “to clearly spell out who, which party or organisation was involved in it, so that the people we represent will clearly understand the matter.”
“Since he was not thoroughly specified it amounts to making false allegation with a view to dilute the issue and to derail the ongoing movement which tantamount to misleading the public for his selfish ends,” it stated.
It further questioned how the CM can claim to have acceded to the people’s demands. The NTAC reminded the CM that the first demand is for him to step down. “People’s demand is not whether or not he has the majority but purely on moral ground as he has betrayed the people leading to the killing of two innocent young boys who had bright future and also injuring several others,” it added.
The NTAC further accused the CM of demonstrating a “negative attitude towards the appeal of NBCC,” and asked him to “realise now that he is inconsistent with the interpretation of Part IX A of the Constitution of India.”
“There is a suspicion that either he is devoid of legal knowledge or someone is misguiding him to jump from one position to the other. TR Zeliang should have been responsible enough to consult the people as he later confessed to do so. The JCC and NTAC, Kohima would like him to recall the fact that all the MLAs including him were elected by the people and not by the Constitution as stated by him in the local daily newspapers and as such, we would like to remind him that he is answerable to the people of Nagaland first and not the Constitution,” the NTAC said.
It further stated that the Constitution of India “will not elect him but the people will.”
