AYO total bandh from 7:00am-3:30pm
DIMAPUR, JANUARY 6 (MExN): The Angami Youth Organization (AYO) today informed that it is compelled to enforce a total bandh at the Kohima, Medziphema and Chumukedima municipalities on January 7 from 7:00am to 3:30pm. A press note from the AYO said that the bandh is being enforced to “avoid any unfortunate event on the final day of the filing of nominations to the municipal elections.”
Stating that it was “upholding the majority of the Naga Public view and sentiment, and also reiterating the resolution of APO,” the AYO said that “any person/persons attempting to file nomination shall be ostracized as outcast from society by way of excommunication.
Notwithstanding, filing of nominations in some other district headquarters, we shall never allow the same to happen in the mentioned places.” The AYO informed that all business establishments, pedestrian and vehicular movements will be totally restricted during the bandh. However, exemptions have been made for medical purposes, paramilitary forces, media and district administration exclusively. While expressing regret for the inconvenience, it urged the general public not to take unnecessary risk.
Meanwhile, the Returning Officer for the Chumukedima Town Council in a notification today reminded that nomination papers need to be delivered to the Town Council Returning Officer (RO)/ Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) at the office of the Chumukedima Town Council or the office of the Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Conference Room by January 7 between 11:00am and 3:00pm.
