DIMAPUR, JANUARY 12 (MExN): The Rising People’s Party (RPP) has said that the UDA coalition in Nagaland, going by their own reasoning, should create more districts in the State.
A press release from the RPP demanded that the genuine aspiration of the Yimkhiung people to have their own district should be fulfilled without delay.
“All the districts in our state have been created along tribal lines. Whether desirable or not this is a fact and this is the criteria under which the Yimkhiungs are demanding one as well. The Yimkhiungs have historical precedence on their side but the delay tactics of the UDA coalition – NDPP, BJP and NPF – in announcing the formation of a Yimkhiung district does not make any sense at all,” it added.
It further stated that Niuland district was created based on the premise that such was necessary to better manage our state’s border with Assam. On the strength of the same argument, the UDA coalition should immediately announce the creation of Bhandari district in Wokha and Mangkolemba district in Mokokchung, all of which are contiguous with the same Disputed Area Belt (DAB), the RPP reasoned.
Thirdly, it said that if Chümoukedima district was created on grounds of administrative convenience and developmental issue, Aboi and Tobu sub-divisions have greater claim to districts than Chümoukedima itself. “For instance, since statehood in 1963, no central projects have been implemented/or are implementable in these two sub-divisions because of their great distance from Mon district headquarter,” it pointed out.
The RPP stated that going by the coalition’s own reasoning the demand of creation of new districts by bifurcating Mon, Mokokchung, and Wokha is “justifiable and apt.” “Therefore to deny the creation of Aboi, Tobu, Mangkolemba and Bhandari districts would be illogical and discriminatory, and the NDPP, BJP and NPF coalition will further lose all shred of credibility,” it said.
