General public of sixteen wards and four landowner villages of Mokokchung town have resolved to boycott the Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) election due to failure of the State government to revoke the implementation of the 33% women’s reservation in the MMC election.
A joint meeting of public of all sixteen wards and the four landowner villages held Saturday here at Town Hall also resolved not to allow any person to file nomination papers for the MMC election and warned that action would be taken against any person filing going against the resolution, as per Ao custom.
“The errant person shall be deprived of the right to reside in Mokokchung town and shall be banished from the town by the people,” the resolution stated.The house also decided that all members of the Advisory Board of the present MMC must resign on or before September 15, 2008.
The house further decided that in the aftermath of the boycott of MMC election, if any individual was found accepting the government’s nomination to form an ad hoc or Advisory Committee or any such other agency to form the MMC, “he or she shall be deemed as punishable as per Ao custom and so shall the people of Mokokchung banish the errant person from the town.”
While adopting the resolutions, the house also conveyed “deepest discontentment” that none of the MLAs from Ao community had uttered a word of concern with regard to women reservation issue.
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