M Dili elected as new Mao Council President
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Tadubi, June 20 2015 :
Former longest serving NPO President M.Dili was unanimously elected as the President of Mao Council during the Mao Council assembly held on Friday at its Headquarters, Tadubi.
Mao Council Information & Publicity Secretary L.Ephriiwo Pfoze informed that, the house has unanimously elected M.Dili of Mao Karong (Punanamai village) as the new President of the Mao Council for the tenure 2015-2018.Attended by Mao village authorities, social leaders, Mao bodies, intellectuals, women and youth bodies, the assembly blessed the new leader.
M.Dili was also the former president of Tenyimi Union.
Shrewd and fearless, the new Mao tribe apex body president faces an uphill task of dealing with the ongoing tension between Mao Council and Southern Angami People's Organisation (SAPO) over Dz�kou and Koz�ri boundary issues.
Here, the Angami Tribe is one of the most important constituent units of Tenyimi Union.
It may be noted that, the unanimous election of a new Mao Council President has come in the wake of long absence of a leadership after the in-office President resigned on moral ground over the issue of withdrawing a "total bandh" to protest the indifferent attitude of the State government on the controversial Dz�kou/Koz�ri boundary issue.
The election of M.Dili as the president is expected to bring prospect of dealing with the present issue which has escalated and tension growing each day after SAPO and SAYO supporters began vandalizing Mao community vehicles, allegedly serving vacation notice to Mao people, destroying Manipur bound trucks and regular harassment on Mao citizens along the NH-2 near Jakhama.