Rising People’s Party (RPP) has demanded withdrawal of deputy commissioner’s (DC) Mon contentious order of August 20 wherein he had reportedly threatened to stop all development activities in Yansa and Yannu villages unless they settled their dispute.
The party in a press release observed that instead of acting as role model and a professional in upholding law and order, the DC had proven himself to be an autocrat lacking in administrative skill and wisdom.
Instead of resolving the issue between the two villages with deftness and professionalism, RPP regretted that the DC had chosen to handle the matter in a despotic manner. The party accused him of aggravating the matter further by blowing it out of proportion.
Instead of trying to impose his delegated powers, the party advised the DC to resolve the issue without resorting to threats and blackmail. This would not only earn him goodwill at the grassroots, but would also ensure that the State government was not bogged down in village issues, it added.
RPP demanded that the chief secretary should clarify on the open “threat” issued to the villages by the DC of stopping all developmental activities, including both Centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) and State schemes. in the area, besides clarifying as to under which section of the relevant law the DC was allowed to issue such a threat.
Asserting that the threat was not only unwarranted and inhuman, but also an attack on the autonomy of Naga village institution itself, RPP likened the “unprecedented order” to village “grouping” of the 1950s and 1860s, which were an awful experience and “whose scars refuse to be healed even today”.
The party insisted that the DC should withdraw his order.