Morung Express News
Dimapur | February 7
As the ULB elections imbroglio continues, the functioning of the government machinery has almost come to a grounding halt in Dimapur. Since the JCC announced the boycott of the government machinery, government offices, including the Deputy Commissioner’s office has remained shut with no employees turning up for work.
The affected offices include Directorates and district branches of the various state government departments located in the district and even the District & Session Court. Along with the DC’s office, the other offices affected include the Directorates of Geology & Mining, Food & Civil Supplies, Excise & Prohibition and the Commissioner of Taxes. The district branches of Legal Metrology, Soil & Water Conservation, Urban Development; District Rural Development Agency and the Superintendent of Excise also remained shut. Most of these offices are located in the immediate periphery of the DC’s office.
Government offices located in other parts of the town were reported to be not functioning.
Dimapur Naga Youth Front (DNYF) volunteers, who assemble daily outside the DC’s office, said that the picketing lasts from 9:00 am till 3:00 pm coinciding with normal office working hours.
DNYF Convenor Abenjang asserted that the boycott and picketing of government offices, except the ones exempted, will continue till the state government relents to the demand of the NTAC and the JCC. Terming the ongoing agitation as “completely different from other agitations,” the DNYF convenor cautioned against “politicising the matter.” “We have only one agenda (demanding the government to step down). It is not our lookout who comes after the present lot.”
Earlier in the morning, the Diphupar Naga Youth Organisation (DNYO) burned effigies of the Chief Minister, Home Minister, NPF president, former Dimapur Commissioner of Police and NAP (IR) personnel at the Diphupar village gate junction, NH 29.
