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Dimapur, Aug. 26 (EMN): The deputy chief minister and leader of BJP legislature party, Y Patton, has stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a secular party that works for the uplift of women, Scheduled Casts and Tribes and Dalits and maintained that any political party or individual branding BJP as anti-Christian was to spread rumours. Patton stated this during a meeting of the BJP workers and supporters under 13 BJP Pughoboto mandal held at Pughoboto town hall on August 26. While citing an instance on secularism upheld by BJP, Patton stated that only last month a tribal woman was elected as the President of India. “There has not been any instance where our path has been hindered in the name of religion after BJP became part of the government in Nagaland,” Patton said. He added that BJP government at the centre under Modi was always keen to develop the Northeast region and Nagaland in particular. He, therefore, urged the party workers to make use of the opportunity and tak
Our Reporter Dimapur, July 15(EMN): Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister, Y Patton on Friday said that the “main obstacle” in the way of solution to the Naga political issue is the NSCN (IM)’s insistence on a separate flag and constitution for the Nagas. “The NSCM (IM) will not accept solution unless flag and constitution are given, and therefore unless NSCN (IM) comes forward for the solution, we are helpless,” Patton told journalists on the sideline of the 16th Freshers’ cum Annual Day programme of Unity College, Dimapur. When asked about the topic of discussion at the core committee meeting on Saturday (July 16), Patton replied, “We are going to have serious discussion at the core committee meeting, because even if we continue core group meetings there is no meaning unless the NSCN (IM) comes forward.” Maintaining that the central government had made it very clear that there would be no separate Naga flag and constitution, Patton said ‘when the talk was concluded o
Our Reporter Dimapur, June 28 (EMN): Amid demands from civil society organisations to resume oil exploration in the state, Advisor of Information Technology and Communication, Science and Technology and New and Renewable Energy, Mmhonlumo Kikon on Tuesday that the government is taking a ‘steady approach’ towards it. He was speaking at a panel discussion on “Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production in Nagaland: its relevance today”, organised by Dimapur Government College in collaboration with the Business Association of Nagas (BAN), in the college. Kikon asserted that the state government is very clear that Centre cannot challenge the special provision (article 371 A) of the constitution, but at the same time aware that “till that time where we are financially ready to help, we will not be able to convert the crude oil into a marketable product”. He asserted that for oil exploration, companies which were ‘just formed to explore oil in Nagaland’ should not be allow
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