UT News Service | 10 July: Government of Nagaland asks its employees to declare if they have any family member in rebel groups. As per letter dated July 7, Nagaland State Chief Secretary, Temjen Toy directed all the Administrative Heads of Departments and all the Heads of Departments to obtain information and self declare if they have any family members or relatives in Underground Organizations with deadline set at August 7.
This sudden move by the Nagaland Government comes after the governor RN Ravi on June 16 wrote a letter to the state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, Government of Nagaland expressing collapse of law and order in the state with rampant extortion by “armed gang” who are running parallel government sparking political debate.
In the recently held Morung dialogue of the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, (NPMHR), Prof. Rosemary Dzuvichü spoke on the after-effects of the Governor’s letter. According to her, the Governor has brought a much bigger ‘pandemic’ to the Nagas in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The people today live in anxiety and tension with a series of arrests of members of NNPGs occurring with no respect for ceasefire ground rules, she said.
Chief Secretary Temjen Toy “with the directive to all the State government
employees to fill up the self-declaration form to declare their relation…
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