Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) on Thursday said that the public of Eastern Nagaland had decided to abstain from the election process due to the state government’s failure to provide comments on the highlights of the draft Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) to the Government of India, thereby stalling the settlement of the Frontier Nagaland Territory (FNT).
In a press release, ENPO said it had learned that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had handed over the highlights of draft MoS for FNT to the state government in December 2023, on which it was supposed to give its comments before December 31, 2023.
However, ENPO said the state government had not yet provided its comments the Centre, due to which, FNT could not materialise before the announcement of Election Model Code of Conduct (MCC) to the Lok Sabha 2024. As per the commitment made by MHA, ENPO said that the arrangement for FNT was supposed to be settled before the Model Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha elections came into force.