Dimapur, Dec.10: In view of the forthcoming Urban local bodies election in Nagaland, the Langpangkong Students’ Conference Clean Election Campaign Committee (LKMCECC) geared up its preventive action plans on war footing for clean election process by conducting series of consultative meetings with the church and local leaders alongwith the mass sensitization program in different places.
In course of the consultative meetings held from December 7 to 9 in Mokokchung, Changtongya town and Tuli with the range leaders, administrations, Church leaders, wards unions, WatsüMungdang units and Dobashi and GBs, LKMCECC received overwhelming support and assurance in its endeavour of clean election movement.
In the meetings, the church and civil society leaders resolved to form an Action Committee on Clean Election in Changtongya town and Tuli town respectively on or before 20 December. These committees shall execute and monitor the implementation process of the resolutions unanimously passed by the Church leaders, village council members, LangpangkongTzükongMungdang, LangpangkongWatsüTelongjem and LangpangkongKaketshirMungdang (LKM) on September 3 at Chuchuyimlang in ensuring fair and free election under Langpangkong range.
The Action Committees on Clean Election Committee (ACCEC) shall create a conducive political and social environment thereby ensuring ‘one person one vote principle’ for every bonafide elector and allow candidates to contest elections in dignity with clear objectives to serve the people selflessly.
In the consultative meetings, the members present opined that people must discourage retirees from contesting and encourage young people to contest elections in accepting the present day challenges that needs morally strong leadership in Nagaland.
LKMCECC also declared that the election must contest between political parties but not between villages and clans and further cautioned that in case of any particular village decide and declare to support any particular candidate undermining the individual rights to vote and contest, the village shall be declared as ‘the most sensitive area’ and bring it to the notice of the Election Commission of India for necessary stringent actions.
LKMCECC considered the forthcoming town council elections in Changtongya and Tuli in particular under its jurisdiction as a preliminary electoral exercise as a test to face the general elections in near future.
The committee also challenged the people to give up the present damaging culture of selling one’s own political rights and begin a new culture of contributing to their candidate as well as the state during election.
In the mass rally conducted in Changtongya and Tuli town by LKMCECC on December 8 and 9 respectively, thousands of people turned up to listen to the voice of clean election and pledged themselves to participate in election process honestly.
the committee appropriately named the ongoing Clean Election program as ‘Electoral and Citizens Revival’ program where people were urged to change their attitude of blaming others by exercising self-introspection and transform their lives from the status of purchasable commodity to dignified citizen.
During the Electoral and Citizens revival program in Changtongya town onDecember 8, the main speaker of the program, Meyionen Jamir, director & DIGP, Vigilance & Anti Corruption, Nagaland exhorted the people to resolved themselves with sacrificial attitude to bring about the desired change in electoral exercise in Nagaland.
He also hopes that a new political order will emerge soon in the state with positive participation of the people in electoral politics.
Besides LKMCECC members, the popular Ao gospel band ‘ Samaro’ and the well known Theatre and Film Production group “ DreamZ Unlimited” performed at the electoral revival program in Changtongya and Tuli respectively.
