NNC (Parent Body) appealed to all concerned not to tag its name along with all such factions or groups of NNPGs indulging in tax collection.
NNC (Parent Body) in a statement clarified that it never collected tax nor imposed or forced anybody– public or businesses or even the church – to pay tax as was done by various factions or groups.
NNC (Parent Body) under the leadership of vice presidents Yilow Humtsoe and Zhiongba Yimchungrii and general secretary V Nagi even called for naming those factions or groups responsible for taxation, burdening the public and even the church, in public interest.
Pinpoint the culprit, but not the one who had stood for the people and freedom, it demanded.
Claiming that even in the past it had clarified its stand on the “serious matter” of taxation, the organisation, in a statement issued by its information & publicity wing, asserted “We love our people and freedom and never believe in taxation in the name of national workers or freedom.”