Nagaland NewsNVCO condemns voting in favour of CAB

NVCO condemns voting in favour of CAB

Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) has strongly condemned both members of parliament (MP) from Nagaland for voting in favour of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).A press release from NVCO press and media cell stated that, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) MP (Rajya Sabha) K G Kenye voted for the Bill in the upper house, while the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) MP (Lok Sabha) Tokheho Yepthomi voted for the same in the lower house. While condemning the support by the MPs for the CAB, the NVCO expressed its resentment to both the MPs for misrepresenting the interest and wishes of the people of Nagaland and both have no moral right to represent its people in parliament.  NVCO conveyed to the people to learn from mistakes for voting them both to represent the people in the Indian parliament. NVCO also stated that Tokheho Yepthomi in his earlier tenure as MP in Lok Sabha was absent when CAB was tabled in Lok Sabha but again “we” voted him to continue as MP as he voted in favour of CAB. NVCO further stated that K G Kenye was initially going against CAB but when it came to voting, he had also voted in favour of CAB. In this regard, NVCO president Kezhokhoto Savi said that the people of Nagaland are not to be convinced by the word “exemption” and “safeguarding interests of NE” as CAB is “totally bad and dangerous to our land” and “we are not to say that we are protected by ILP & Art. 371 A as the word ‘citizenship’ is totally different.”

 

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