Phesama, February 18 (MExN): NDPP candidate for 14 Southern Angami-I sitting MLA Medo Yhokha on Friday said it is sad that the Kezoltsa issue between the Southern Angami and Mao community is being portrayed as a political issue, stated an update received here.
“In the backdrop of the issue being used at a political plank by some candidates in the region,” Yhokha in his address at a campaign in Phesama village on February 17 said “Kezoltsa issue is not a new issue and it should to be resolved peacefully through the Naga customary court.”
He stated that the pre-poll coalition’s focus is mainly on youth, skill development and entrepreneurship, farmers and micro-financing. Maintaining that the party’s focal point has changed from women empowerment to gender equity, Yhokha asserted that it now stood for gender equity. He said, “women are leading in various fields but for politics, and seeing the need to include women in decision making, the NDPP has issued tickets to aspiring women candidates.”
On the vexed Naga political issue, Yhokha said it is a “process” and elected representatives as facilitators remain committed on pursuing the issue forward to a logical conclusion.
