DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): Three student bodies, including the Ao Students’ Union Dimapur (ASUD), Dimapur Lotha Students’ Union (DLSU) and Dimapur Sumi Students’ Union (DSSU) have disassociated themselves from the Dimapur Naga Students’ Unin (DNSU).
A joint statement from the three student bodies informed that this decision was taken during a joint meeting held on November 16 in Dimapur.
The statement informed that on November 14, the three bodies had “conditionally agreed to extend its fullest cooperation to the NSF Committee for DNSU Restoration on the assurance that the union assembly in its first sitting itself will take up the agenda put forth by the three units for re-drafting/re-amending the constitution of DNSU.”
It reminded that since 2011, the three units has been putting up a joint effort to counter the “shadow bloc system” of two third majority enshrined in the constitution of DNSU “due to which the decisions taken thus far were never in the best interest of Naga Society as a whole.”
In the first union assembly held on November 15, 2016, the statement informed that the three units submitted an ultimatum to the speaker urging him to take up the agenda put forth by the three constituent units as per the earlier representation given to NSF. However, it stated that the speaker “denied having had received any written representation/ endorsement from the NSF Committee for DNSU Restoration.”
“However after being forced to, the agenda was taken up for discussion and was put up for vote. However it was out rightly rejected by vote system projecting the clear image of the shadow bloc system,” it added.
This, the statement reasoned has compelled the three student bodies to disassociate from DNSU with immediate effect. They further called upon the DNSU Union Assembly Speaker to immediately dissolve the executive council of DNSU “as it cannot function without the executive head to look after the day to day functioning of the office of DNSU.”
