The JDU Nagaland is aggrieved to witness the predicament being faced by the business community of Nagaland.
The manner in which the Confederation of Nagaland Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CNCCI) is vending out its frustration in the form of business shut down is a clear “writing on the wall” that it is willing to give up its meagre business profit and let go the lion-share to those gun-toting groups or faction in the name of Naga Nationalism.
This situation manifest the fact that the backs of the not only the business community but the Naga society as a whole is against the wall. Therefore, mass uprising is exigent to confront the situation and merely leaving it to the Government and the Law enforcing agencies will be disastrous as is already seen over the yearsthe lack of political will to contain the unabated extortion in guise oftaxation for Naga Political cause.
Such complacency has only resulted in the mushrooming of various underground groups with high sounding Naga Political statements but intended only to use themselves as an industry or otherwise a money minting machine.Such groups looks upon the business establishment as an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) for which the CNCCI has taken upon the cudgel in the form of closure of business establishment.
· The JDU firmly believes that economic Independence is paramount to Political Independence and if the growth of Naga economy is tohampered, then the very meaning and principle of the Naga Political Movement will be defeated. Moreover it is also pertinent to mention that patriotism does not protrude its heads in the form of palatial building and SUVs during the course of the journey towards independence.
· In the light of the above, the JDU while expressing its solidarity to the cause of CNCCI urge up the Naga society to abstain from taking the attitude of “wait and watch” but come out to the open to fight the menace of unabated extortion/taxation.
ISSUE BY
MEDIA AND PUBLICITY CELL,
JDU,NAGALAND.
