WWW.EASTERNMIRRORNAGALAND.COM EASTERN MIRROR Is L-G trying to protect a corrupt Anushka Sharma named Man Utd not the best team system, asks Sisodia | P8 PETA’s Person of the Year | P10 in the world Mourinho | P11 NATION ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS VOL. XVI NO. 351 | PAGES 12 ` 4/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2017 Demand for Tseminyu dist. intensifies Imchen iterates on deferring Rengma youth forums launch indefinite ‘dharna’ assembly elections for solution Eastern Mirror Desk land Legislative Assembly passed who are willing for political set- tor. On this line Imchen remarked Dimapur, Dec. 27 (EMN): Min- on Dec. 15 2017 in tune with the tlement, there is unity among the ‘if agreement is brought, state gov- ister for Health and Family Wel- resolution of the meeting of the Naga freedom fighters and there is ernment has to be dismissed and fare Imkong L Imchen vouched former and present legislators held willingness for settlement on the what will be the use of conducting for solution before election by on Dec. 17 2017 at Jotsoma should part of GOI under the leadership election to be dismissed. Our pro- deferring the state assembly elec- be taken with all seriousness by all of PM Narendra Modi , main- posal must meet both ends’. tions which is likely to be held in including the GOI, maintained tained Imchen. Imchen further stated in his February 2018 while maintaining Imchen in a press statement made ‘According to my assessment press statement ‘once election is that the proposal to the Govern- available to media persons at the meeting the leaders at the Centre conducted, the division within the ment of India to defer the elec- press conference. and their expression, the Naga po- Nagas will effectively return and tion is to focus on Naga politi- The press statement from the litical problem is on the final stage bitter feelings will be loud and cal settlement and not to boycott legislator stated ‘even though I and in the right track’ claimed dirty. I see no big deal on the part election. have come across some section Imchen. When questioned on the of the GOI to differ the assembly The legislator addressing me- of our people aspiring to conduct non participation of some Naga election temporarily basing on the dia persons on Wednesday Dec. assembly election saying that they Political Groups, Imchen while constitutional provisions which is 27 at Hotel Saramati Dimapur wanted to earn “something” in stating ‘there cannot be two set- very clearly provided in the Con- asserted that Naga people were the election from the candidates tlements’ maintained ‘the GOI stitution of India’. thinking lightly on the deferment and not to talk nor think about might be in touch with the other “I am optimistic about the im- of assembly elections when they the “Clean Election”. As sitting groups through some source’. peding political settlement within should understand the meaning of member of the house we are used He also opined that the 16 2018. We should also be grateful 'postponement' of election. to election and yet the difference point agreement was never incor- to Th. Muivah and leaders of the “If Nagas miss this opportuni- this time is there cannot be a bet- porated in the constitution of In- six NNPG for their bold and cou- ty we will have a historical regret. ter condition than the present one dia, and it would have been better EM Images rageous decision to engage them- Volunteers of Rengma youth organisations during the demonstration demanding Tseminyu district on Nagaland is a cradle of insurgency where there is no opposition in the if it was included. selves to bring about a political Wednesday. in India. Election is not a big deal present assembly’. “Let the present term of state settlement so as to offer the most compared to Naga political issue,” There are good wishes from government be over and Presi- desired aspiration of the Nagas Kohima Bureau for support to the cause of their demand for a separate said Imchen. the neighbouring states of Assam, dent’s Rule imposed so that the which is due for the last more than Kohima, Dec. 27 (EMN): their community. district is not unjustified The resolution of the Naga- Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh talk continue”, insisted the legisla- seven decades” he stated. Close on the heels of a On Wednesday, sev- and they are of the view notification of the state eral leaders of the tribe that suppressing the Reng- government announcing including the president of mas is a denial of their con- the upgradation of Nok- the apex body of the com- tributions. lak sub-division to a full- munity- Rengma Hoho, Mention may be made Jai Ram Thakur takes oath as Himachal CM fledged district going viral addressed the protesting here that the Rengma Shimla, Dec. 27 (IANS): Jai Ram taking ceremony. in social media since Dec. youth at Tseminyu. Hoho had, earlier in April Thakur on Wednesday was sworn The 12-member cabinet, com- 21 last, Rengma youth fo- “Denying a District to 2016, submitted a memo- in as the Himachal Pradesh Chief prising Thakur, has six former rums have intensified their Rengma is Denying Our randum to the Chief Min- Minister at a ceremony here at- ministers and equal number of demand for Tseminyu Right”, “Enough of being ister on the same matter. tended by Prime Minister Naren- first-time ministers, a blend of ex- sub-division to be elevated the Oldest Sub-Division, The organisation had ex- dra Modi and BJP President Amit perienced and new faces. to a district headquarter. We want to be the Latest pressed dismay that the Shah, among others. The others who took oath The youth bodies- Rengma District” and “Tseminyu Tseminyu sub-division, Governor Acharya Devvrat were former Cabinet Ministers Selo Zi and Rengma Stu- District is the Legitimate one of the oldest adminis- administered the oath of office Mohinder Singh, Kishan Ka- dents’ Union (RSU)- have Right of the Rengmas” are trative centres in Nagaland and secrecy to Thakur, who will poor, Sarveen Chaudhary and launched an indefinite some of the slogans that was neglected by succes- turn 53 on January 6. This will be Anil Sharma, former Minister ‘peaceful dharna’ on Dec. are being put up on plac- sive governments since the his maiden term as Chief Minis- Ram Lal Markanday and new 26 at the ADC office com- ards by the youth bodies. inception of the state. It is ter. faces Suresh Bhardwaj, Vipin plex in Tseminyu town, One slogan that stood out of the view that a separate The swearing-in ceremony at Singh Parmar, Virender Kanwar, demonstrating with black was “Restore our Position. district for the community the historic Ridge saw the pres- Vikram Thakur, Gobind Thakur flags and placards stating DAN govt. peoples govt.”: would enable the Rengma ence of Union Ministers Rajnath and Rajeev Sahjal. their demand. a direct cry to the present people to decide their own Singh, J.P. Nadda and Nitin Gad- Sarveen Chaudhary is the lone “Our intention is not Naga People’s Front-led future politically, socially kari, besides the Chief Ministers woman minister in the cabinet. to create any violence and Democratic Alliance of and economically. The of various BJP-ruled states in at- All the Ministers took the chaos, but a sit-in to dem- Nagaland (DAN) govern- community had also on tendance, along with more than oath in Hindi, except Bhardwaj onstrate grief that justice is ment that it should restore July 27, 2016 staged a mass 30,000 party supporters from and Gobind Thakur, who took being denied to the Reng- the position of the Reng- public rally in Tseminyu across the state, mostly dressed in the oath in Sanskrit. mas,” says Kenneth Kath, mas if it was truly a peo- town demanding for eleva- traditional attire. Senior legislators and former president of Rengma Selo ple’s government. tion of the sub-division to a BJP veteran L.K. Advani was Cabinet Minister Rajeev Bindal, Zi. The contention of the district headquarter. also present. Five-time legislator Narender Bragta and Ramesh According to the youth community is that, the As per the 2011 cen- Thakur, who rose through the Dhawala did not find place in the forum, the ‘dharna’ would Rengmas have been part sus, Tseminyu sub-division ranks and is known for his hum- cabinet. continue into the imminent and parcel of the Naga po- has a total population of PTI new year until their demand litical and historical move- 56,844 with 39 recognised ble, clean and low-profile nature, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with New Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jairam The BJP last week won a took the oath in Hindi. Thakur after the swearing-in ceremony in Shimla on Wednesday. majority with 44 seats in the 68- is fulfilled. All the Rengma ment- in the foundation of villages, 3 townships, 2 ru- During the oath taking cer- member state assembly. villages and ranges will be Nagaland state and they ral development blocks and emony he did not wear the trade- feated in this election. ed the ceremony. Outgoing Congress Chief participating in the sit-in had also been a signatory an outpost for an extra as- mark maroon flap cap of the BJP, Thakur's family members, in- "This is the victory of the Minister Virbhadra Singh and his protest, it was informed. of the historic memoran- sistant commissioner, be- which the former two-time Chief cluding his 80-year-old widowed common man," Thakur's wife erstwhile cabinet colleagues were Towards this, the Rengma dum to the Simon Com- sides other established gov- Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal mother, who belongs to a remote Sadhna Thakur, who is doctor by conspicuously absent from the Selo Zi and RSU appealed mission in 1929.