NPF on Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016
Kohima, January 12, 2019
The Union Cabinet approved the Citizen (Amendment) Bill on 8th Januray 2019 which was instantly passed by the Lok Sabha on 9th January 2019. This was a nude exposure of the brute force applied by the NDA Government at the Centre which had shown total disregard to the sentiments of the people of the country, particularly the people of the North east.
It sounds good when the Nagaland Cabinet resolved to request the Centre to review and re-examine the Bill in spite of the fact that their Chief Minister had already declared not to oppose the Citizenship Bill on National screen. It may be a logic too simple for the people to understand.
As for the Naga People’s Front, we are against the Bill from the very beginning and we will never agree to such act which opens the gate of population politics to suppress our rights of living in our own land.
The Nagaland MP of Lok Sabha is member of the NDA who supported the Bill in passing it. The Nagaland MP of Rajya Sabha is a member of NPF who will go against the Bill, however, insignificant a single vote among many.
We will do this to clarify our stand in clear term. Come what may, we will take this stand to defend the rights of our people because this controversial Bill is not only threatening our future but a move to wipe out the indigenous people of the whole North East, a challenge too costly to explain at the moment.
Sd/
Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu
President,
Naga People’s Front,
Central HQ. Kohima.
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This Press Release was posted on January 13 2019
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