Dimapur, Jan. 19 (EMN): Alleging that the Nagaland government-commissioned ‘committee on BEFR/ILP/inclusion of Dimapur under ILP’ was reneging on its commitment, the Joint Committee on Prevention of Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) has threatened with another strike “of any sort deemed fit to protect the state from illegal immigrants/immigration.”
A statement from the JCPI on Saturday stated that the committee led by IAS officer Abhishek Singh had reneged its commitment to give its recommendations to the state government by Nov. 2018. It demanded that the committee submit its report to the state government/cabinet within days, and a copy of the same be given to the JCPI “for perusal.”
Failure to do so would force the JCPI to enforce the strike, it warned. “As a matured body representing the present and the future of our Naga people, the JCPI has been very cooperative and patient with the committee. But given the dilly-dallying of the committee and the fiasco related to the government’s utter failure to protect the interest of the Naga people vis-à-vis the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016, the JCPI is left with no choice but to be prepared to take recourse to democratic means of agitation to protect and safeguard our Naga rights.”
The JCPI stated that it was “incumbent upon the apex tribal institutions to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the rights of the people.”
