Dimapur, June 27 (EMN): Joint Action Committee (JAC) of tribal hoho on delimitation has reacted to the statement made by BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav and advised him to be wiser while making such statements, stating that delimitation is a constitutional obligation enacted by the parliament, not a petty party matter, to ensure equal opportunity of development to all sections of the society.
JAC was reacting to Madhav’s statement that “his party had recommended postponement of the delimitation exercise” based on the representation of the BJP Nagaland president Temjen Imna Along and the chief minister Neiphiu Rio. JAC stated that such utterance was an insult to the Parliament of the country and also Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
JAC’s statement issued through its publicity cell has ridiculed Madhav of forgetting the aspiration of the prime minister and Union Home Minister, who in their wisdom and ardent desired to establish a nation of unity, progress and peace through equal opportunities to all its citizens in every state of the country, had notified the unfinished deferred task of delimitation in the states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, the process for which began in 2020.
“Madhav also must have been sleeping over what the Union Home Minister Amit Shah had told recently to Nagaland chief minister that delimitation has to be implemented in Nagaland on priority in contravention to the Naga issue that Rio suggested, as an excuse, was different from delimitation,” JAC stated.
JAC felt that Madhav, being the general secretary of the ruling party in the country, should have impressed upon the leaders of the state to abide by the policies of the Parliament and the commandment of the Constitution of the country. It has termed it unfortunate that Madhav had forgotten the rationale “that giving room to oppose or prevent parliamentary policies from implementation in a state of the country will only encourage deviance to vested interest sections of the society.”