The Nagaland Liquor total prohibition act 1989 has remain a fable story since its inception. It has neither benefited the common people nor enriched the christian ethics. Practically, the convention of Nagaland dry state under the flagship of NLTP Act is an Utopian concept only. A large section of the Naga Christian friends are selling and consuming adulterated liquor daily in the name of dry state. This means NLTP Act is just a like license issue to illegal local factories in Assam to manufacture poisonous liquor and also to shoot up double the price of IMLF from it's normal cost.
Nearly crores of rupees from public purse are burn into ashes in the form of IMLF in a year for the sake of dry state. Such unreasonable activities affect our state economy, the consumers and their families abreast. Unfortunately at this juncture the NLTP Act and the slogan "Nagaland for dry state" has become a mockery from the eyes of the infidels whom we Christians called them non believers. The poisonous adulterated liquor is flowing allover Nagaland acting as a silent killer taking advantage of NLPT Act and dry state
With the current trend it is difficult to curb the phenomena and convening consultative meetings and debates to review NLTP Act has no space for better solution. it will be the same like indo-Pakistan peace talk over Jammu-Kashmir problem. Today, the serious concern is not for the active implementation of NLTP Act but the concern here is to release the dangerous effects of NLTP Act which is killing our precious life by consuming adulterated wettest dry state IML. Therefore, NPF youth wing appeals that it is high time for the government agencies, civil societies, tribal Hohos and most importantly church organizations to accept the failure of the NLTP Act and retrospect the idea behind the nature and the consequences of dry state deeply and lift before the satanic adulterated liquor swallow the precious lives of Naga Christians making our future generation at stake.
Janbemo Humtsoe
Member Secretary Media Cell
NPF Youth Wing
