LKMCECC 2nd phase Clean Election tour
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ABAM Clean Election Flag being hoisted and keep flying on top of some houses in Changtongya village as a mark of their pledge to abide by clean election resolutions.[/caption]
Dimapur, August 30 (EMN):“Clean Election campaign is not just a campaign to vote during election but it is a spiritual war that we should all fight against the sins within ourselves; it is a battle that can be won with self determination and commitment to contribute something in the course restructuring our society for a better tomorrow. It is a war that will go on fighting beyond election for ensuring good governance in our State,” the Langpangkong Students’ Conference Clean Election Campaign Committee (LKMCECC) stated.
“Even if election time approaches in Nagaland, unlike in recent past, this year people will restrain themselves from indulging in old habit of electoral malpractices in Nagaland.”
This observation was shared by the people in Langpangkong area under Mokokchung district with the LKMCECC during their 2nd Phase tour conducted last week.
“Election time should not be a time of violence or creating enmity within one’s own community rather it should be a time of celebration for getting a political opportunity as citizen to exercise one’s own political right to choose one’s own political representative in formation of the government,” the LKMCECC told the people during their campaign.
In one of the campaign meetings in the villages under Langpangkong range, a pastor expressed his anguish and regretted for not being able to cast his own vote owing to undemocratic system adopted by the community during election. “I am 50 years old now, but I have seen neither ballot paper nor Electronic Voting Machine in my life. However, now that I pledged myself to participate in clean election process, I will cast my own vote myself as and when election comes,” he said.
LKMCECC observed that the same sense of political eagerness felt in the minds of many people in Nagaland today.
The villagers expressed their deep disappointment that almost all the candidates did not keep their promises made during elections and seldom visit their villages unless call to attend a function as chief guest.
The LKMCECC also experienced pathetic and risky road conditions in many places and very irregular power supply that causes economic loss to the entrepreneurs and untold inconveniences to the students during their campaign period, the press release stated.
During the Clean Election campaign, the LKMCECC urged the people to maintain moral standard in every activity of their life and appealed them to depart from sinful life of amassing wealth without work, eating without labour, commerce without morality, politics without principle and religious life without sacrifice.
As a mark of their serious commitment to Clean Election principle, many families in the villages have seen hoisting the ABAM Clean Election flag on the top of their respective houses. The ABAM Clean election flag carries a cross with the word ‘Clean Election’ in white background, the press release added.
The LKMCECC has toured 13 villages and one town unit from August 24 to 26 as the 2nd Phase of touring on Clean Election under Langpangkong range.
During the tour, basing on the resolutions adopted on September 3, 2016 at Chuchuyimlang, the village councils and other apex civil organisations and the Church authority were entrusted to constitute the Action Committee on Clean Election which will work hand and hand with the LKM CECC and act as the guardian of “Chuchuyimlang resolution on Clean Election” in their respective village and areas.
The LKMCECC, while appreciating the positive response from the people of the range and the hospitality shown during the recent touring, once again reminded that the success of the this genuine campaign rests with the decision of the individual and not with any other organisation.
Meanwhile, the LKMCECC appealed all concerned and Langpangkong people in particular to observe the 1st Anniversary of launching of LKM Clean Election Campaign with a 30 minute solemn prayer in every home on September 3 at 6 a.m. with LKMCECC members for the success of the Clean Election Campaign in Nagaland in general and Langpangkong range in particular.
The LKMCECC further appealed all the Churches in Langpangkong area irrespective of her denomination to conduct a mass prayer during Sunday devotional service on September 3 for clean election to ensure clean government in Nagaland.
