Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio felicitates H Chuba Chang during the programme held at State Banquet Hall Chief Minister's residential complex in Kohima on April 6.
Our Correspondent
Kohima | April 6
The Nagaland Chief Minister, while giving an update on his recent visit to Delhi said, “we also had meetings with NNPGs and the NSCN leadership along with our friends in the Opposition led by the Leader of Opposition”.
“As far as our approach to the Naga political issue is concerned, the elected members of the Nagaland Assembly have risen above party affiliations and we have come together under a spirit of oneness in order to facilitate the peace process for an early and honourable solution,” he said while addressing the thanksgiving service in Kohima on April 6.
Rio informed that they have urged upon the negotiating parties to expedite the negotiations and bring about an early solution which is the desire and cry of the people.
The thanksgiving service was held to commemorate the three years completion of People's Democratic Alliance (PDA) Government in Nagaland in office and also on election of H Chuba Chang to 51-Noksen Assembly Constituency. It was held at the State Banquet Hall Chief Minister's residential complex in Kohima.
Earlier, the CM said that the thanksgiving service is significant as it comes on the backdrop of the completion of three years of PDA government. “While we have made progressive achievements, we were also bogged down with an entire year of battling the global pandemic,” he said, adding that the remaining two years of the government tenure is most crucial and important in fulfilling the promises of the manifestos and the Common Minimum Program.
“We need to constantly be guided by these commitments which we have given to the people and it is on this basis that the people have given their mandate to us,” said Rio.
Rio stated that there are several crucial and important issues that the government continues to be faced with but most important in our agenda is to deliver good governance under a spirit of transparency and justice.
“We assured meritocracy to the people and we continue to make efforts towards enhancing meritocracy,” he said adding that efforts like the establishment of the Staff Selection Board, removal of VIP culture, improved e-governance and use of technology to combat governance challenges remain at the core of the government's initiatives. “Our progressive achievement and cohesion in the government was carried to the people and the success is due to the actions and not mere promises,” he said.
The CM also called upon the PDA partners and the party leaders to collectively make efforts that are aimed at making the people understand and realise the various initiatives and projects of the government. “Our responsibility is to reach governance to the doorsteps of every household and each one of us must make sincere efforts towards realization of this aspiration,” he said.
The people have enormous expectations upon all of us and we cannot afford to let them down,” said Rio while calling upon the alliance partners to rededicate themselves towards the service of the people.
Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister, Y Patton; PDA chairman and NDPP president Chingwang Konyak; State BJP General Secretary Eduzu Thelu-o also spoke during the function.
Newly elected MLA, H Chuba Chang in his address assured to put his best effort to uphold the party motto work and not words.
