Chizami BJP demands clarification from church

Dimapur, March 26 (EMN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at 17th Chizami assembly constituency has demanded clarifications from the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) and the Chakhesang Clean Election Movement (CCEM) for what the unit alleged was ‘failure to implement the 18 point resolutions at CBCC convention hall on June 27 2017.’ The BJP unit placed the demand from the CBCC and CCEM during a meeting on March 23 at Pfutsero. A joint press release issued by the unit’s president Vetshe Tsüzüh and the General Secretary Khrope Tsuhuh, stated that the group resolved to demand to the CBCC ‘to identify the church leaders who were involved in the election process, campaigning through hate and false propagandas, proxy voting etc.’ The unit also resolved to ‘expel them accordingly for five years as per the CCEM resolution’ in order to save the integrity and sanctity of the church, it stated. The unit further resolved to seek clarification from the CBCC executive secretary as to why church leaders were involved in the election campaign and even used the church pulpit to campaign against particular party which it claimed was directly against the point no-8 of the CCEM resolution. The party has also demanded that the CBCC ‘prove and authenticate’ that the BJP is a ‘communal, anti-Christian and killer’ group and accordingly strike out the membership of BJP supporters from the churches. The party has also censured the president of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, Phek division. It accused the president of the NDPP unit of being responsible for the merger of NPP to NPF ‘violating all the norms of NDPP-BJP pre-poll alliance during the 13th state assembly election.’ The party has urged the NDPP to remove him immediately. The party’s workers also resolved to pressurise the administration to immediately ‘book the culprit for the hate poster campaigns’ on Feb. 19.