Dimapur, Oct. 24 (EMN): The Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) in its first presidential council meeting held on Oct. 21 at Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kitsubozou had a threadbare discussion on various points and issues and adopted the following points for implementation thereof.
According to a press release issued by CSU president, Dode Nakro, with the approaching of the general election and in accordance with the clean election guidelines as provided therein and also being part of the Core Committee agent of the Chakhesang Clean Election Movement (CCEM), the house in its meeting unanimously resolved to fully support the CCEM for the betterment and for the larger interest of the Chakhesang community in particular and the Nagas in general.
The house also resolved to organise a sensitisation programme as part of creating awareness of the clean election guidelines to students in particular and the entire people of the respective villages and henceforth, the CSU endorsed all its affiliated unit students’ union to initiate the proposed sensitisation programme in their own jurisdiction and further requested the units to carry out their initiative through print media.
In pursuance with the CCEM and NBCC’s clean election guidelines and to implement in later and spirit, the house expressed its discontentment over those units failing to do their part to adhere and abide to the given guidelines and unanimously resolved to restrict its unit to declare any sort of mass support to any particular candidate in collaboration with village authority or organization and thereby signing in the declaration is a direct violation of the guidelines and is liable for penalty.
The CSU henceforth, directed all its affiliated units to withdraw at the earliest in the event of any affiliated units has done as such. Failing to comply with the directive, it has stated that the union shall take its own course of action in the event the union detected such declaration without any further notice.
Other agenda discussed and deliberated during the meeting included 70th General Conference to be hosted by Kütsapo Students’ Union (KSU) during January 2018.