{"id":232563,"date":"2021-06-21T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/06\/21\/interlocutor-s-office-clarifies\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:40:11","slug":"interlocutor-s-office-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/interlocutor-s-office-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlocutor\u2019s office clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Office of the Government of India Representative &amp; Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks, through the OSD has issued a rejoinder to the statement issued by what it described as &ldquo;a Naga armed organisation, engaged in the peace process.&rdquo; According to the OSD, &ldquo;Naga armed organization&rdquo; had through media, reiterated its &ldquo;right to collect tax from the people&rdquo; and also claimed that this right has &ldquo;also been recognized by the Representative of the government of India, having dialogue with them.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While stating that &ldquo;such an erroneous statement is likely to cause confusion among the people&rdquo;, OSD reasserted that &ldquo;taxation is a sovereign function which can be exercised only either by the government of India or the state government.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OSD clarified that the Centre &ldquo;does not recognize any such rights by any other entity&rdquo; and added that &ldquo;forcible collection of money by any entity is extortion which is a criminal office punishable under the laws.&rdquo; OSD also claimed that all &ldquo;Naga armed organisations engaged in the peace process have given a commitment against such collection.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interlocutor\u2019s office clarifies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}