Kavi Sumi Naga
According to the news report on the Nagaland Post, The Morung Express and Nagaland Page, dated June 22, 2018, with regards to the #retainrupinsharma signature campaign, it has been highlighted that according to the Chief Secretary, Temjen Toy as per sources, the Govt is blaming Rupin Sharma for engineering the whole signature campaign. This in itself is a baseless allegation.
First of all the news media published in the local dailies of Nagaland Page dated June 15 2018 that Rupin has been removed as DGP and replaced by John Longkumer ADGP Chhattisgarh and subsequently the other local dailies carried the news the next day. This is the main reason that it took everyone by surprise, especially the young people who is fed up of the corrupt system prevailing in our State.
Therefore, it is very unbecoming of Chief Secretary and the Nagaland Government now changing their stand from saying Sharma as an inexperienced DGP, then saying his appointment as a stop gap arrangement and now saying that he engineered the signature campaign.
When the Supreme Court has clearly mandated that once a DGP is appointed he cannot be removed for 2 years, so isn't this contempt of court? When it is in the book of law why is the Chief Secretary who was appointed as stop gap interfering and misleading the State and its citizens? If the Government is claiming that Sharma is yet to attain certain criteria, then even after being well aware of that, why was he appointed in the first place? And please note that when the Order of the Nagaland state Government was issued by the Home Commissioner on Nov 23, 2017, appointing Sharma as the DGP Nagaland, there was clearly no mention of stop- gap arrangement.
R.Binchulo Thong IAS is the rightful Chief Secretary who was next in Line after Pankaj Kumar, so why is he been given the Additional Chief Secretary and Development commissioner and now transferred and posted as DG, ATI and Additional Chief Secretary (Rural Development) as per the news published from Nagaland Page on June 22, 2018. On March 18, 2018, the current Chief Secretary assumed from the outgoing Chief Secretary Kumar at Secretariat Plaza Kohima. During the farewell programme, Kumar cited that, “In the normal course, my friend and batch mate R. Binchulo Thong would have taken over charge from me. As he is not well, Temjen Toy is going to take over the responsibility.” Health ground was the reason cited for R.B Thong’s replacement.
Now, if Thong is not in good health than why is he still in the service and being transferred here? Why are we allowing the Government to appoint anyone they wish and remove any one they wish even when there are clear law and rules written in black and white? And when the appointment of the Chief Secretary is also a stop gap arrangement, when the rightful candidate is still in the service, how long is this arrangement going to continue? Isn’t the Government of Nagaland answerable to its citizens? May the public and right thinking citizen be the judge.
