Reacting to state government’s decision to urge the Centre to pass an Ordinance to exempt the state from Part IX A of the Constitution of India, the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has urged the state government not to seek for such ordinance in haste without proper preparation.
NTC president, Lendinoktang Ao, and general secretary, Nribemo Ngullie, said this was decided at a meeting held in Kohima on February 9, 2017 where it also resolved that the state government should not hold elections till the present Municipal and Town Council Act was ratified.
It also slammed chief minister for clinging to his chair and becoming the “source of all frictions, confrontations and the mess we are in now.” NTC also asked the chief minister to realise the importance of the voices of the general public and the earlier he paved way for peace and normalcy by demitting office, the better for him and the people.
Further, NTC has expressed concern over the blockage of mobile internet service which was depriving the students and unemployed educated youth of online services and other basic communication works.
It accused chief minister T.R.Zeliang of various anti-indigenous Nagas of Nagaland policies and among the “most unpopular master-mind of population integration from outside the state” by TR Zeliang being the Rongmei recognition and the attempt to recognize more tribes from outside Nagaland.
Further NTC slammed the government over the attempt to sell out the basic rights of the citizens by creating cadastral areas in the foothills in order to give permanent settlement to non-indigenous people from outside Nagaland through Nagaland Special Development Zone (NSDZ).
This was to relax Nagaland Land and Revenue Act, 1978 and Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation Act, 1973 it said. This was also a clear infringement of the Article 371A that guaranteed the private individual ownership of land and its resources as under Oil and Natural Gas Rules and Regulation Act of 2012.
It also criticized the T.R. Zeliang government for having removed the suo moto powers of the Vigilance Commission with an aim to shield the corrupt in high places.