Dimapur, April 12 (EMN): Nagaland is under colonisation at the hands of our elected representatives and people are voiceless as every citizen have sold out their rights at the time of elections, taunted former NLA speaker, also treasurer of the newly formed Nagaland Congress, Z Lohe.
Addressing the Nagaland Congress plenary meeting on Wednesday at Bookmarc conference hall in Dimapur, Lohe while taking a jibe at the state MLAs’ mandate to do anything for five years said, for them, ‘public welfare is third priority’.
“The whole system is corrupt today and unless we unite whole heartedly like ACAUT and church associations we can never remove corruption from our system. Around 62-65% of the state’s money is spent on salary of government employees,” reminded Lohe.
“Christianity is under threat in the state and will be infused by the anti-Christ trend dividing the Churches,” Lohe said.
In Nagaland money is the first question associated with elections or political parties, and corruption starts from electoral rolls and elections, stated veteran politician and the Nagaland Congress president, Nillo Rengma. He said Nagaland Congress will work for cleaning electoral rolls, to have clean election and will fully support the Church to make clean election a reality in the state.
Nagaland is a problem state where change is the need of the day and for this change the party has boldly volunteered to launch a right political platform mainly for aspiring and rising leadership who would dare come forward to take lead towards achieving their objective, said Rengma.
With ‘unbeaten record’ of corruption and scams, backdoor appointments, total halt of development activities, unpaid salaries, intolerance and arrogance of political elite, complete cut-off between public and government regularly raised by public despite least effort from the government, Rengma maintained the party will offer platform to fight these.
The party’s aim is to reform Nagaland, safeguard the rights of Nagas and to make it free from corruption, added the leader.
Nagaland Congress announced that the Election Commission of India has registered the regional party as a political party under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 with effect from February 22, 2017 after the party officially announced their launch last June.
“The party will work for unification of all Naga inhabited areas under a single administrative unit and protect the rights and privileges of minority community living in Nagaland”, asserted Rengma while conveying that the membership of Nagaland Congress is open to all the citizens of India without discrimination on the basis of ‘region, caste, religion, language and culture’.
The Nagaland Congress leaders, addressing media persons after the formal plenary meeting, said the party will not compromise on the special provisions of Article 371 (A) while maintaining that the party is not against 33% women reservation. They also conveyed that the party will reach to all eleven districts conversely claiming that the party is not being ambitious but will go steady as the drama is yet to unfold in the state.
