Joint Action Committee of Tribal Hohos (JACTHs) on delimitation has acknowledged the resolution no. 5 adopted at the chief minister’s residence, Kohima and signed by PDA convener and NDPP president Chingwang Konyak and PDA co-convener and BJP State president Temjen Imna Along.
It stated that the PDA in its resolution observed “that as members of the largest democracy in the world, it is bounden duty of everyone, especially the constitutional institutions, to uphold the spirit of democracy and to strengthen the democratic foundations of this great nation.”
JAC said it expected the legislators from both ruling and opposition parties would follow the democratic values and constitutional obligation as members of a constitutional body sworn in under oath of allegiance to the Constitution of India.
It said the legislators knew well that the delimitation exercise under an Act of Parliament should be carried out, as stated by the Union home minister Amit Shah and reiterated by chief minister Neiphiu Rio at RCEMPA. The State Assembly was duty-bound to abide by the Constitution of India always, it stressed.