Naga tribes hoho & civil societies dissolve core committee

With candidates filing nomination for the February 27 Nagaland Assembly election, the Naga tribes hoho and civil societies today decided to 'dissolve' the Core Committee, a CCNTHCO release said.
Twenty two candidates filed their papers today, the penultimate day of filing nominations.
The Core Committee of Nagaland Tribes Hoho and Civil Organisations (CCNTHCO) held an emergent sitting with tribal bodies, civil societies, political parties and the Naga negotiating groups here today.
After threadbare deliberation, "it was resolved to dissolve the Core Committee since all the political parties had already violated the January 29 declaration which their representatives had signed," stated a release issued by CCNTHCO convener Theja Therieh along with his four co-conveners and two secretaries.

Under the circumstances, they said the CCNTHCO had no option but to dissolve.
However, they reiterated that "the January 29 Joint Declaration still stands ...".

While the Committee stands dissolved, they however said that as mandated by the tribal hohos and mass based organisations, its mission was carried forward to the fullest, thus leaving behind a positive spirit.
The CCNTHCO thanked all the people for having supported common cause while also appreciating the Nagaland Joint Christian Forum for having initiated the coming together of all apex tribe hohos and mass based NGOs' to find solution for a common cause
The CCNTHCO was constituted on January 25 following a meeting of the apex tribal organisations and civil societies in the presence of political parties to take forward the general call for solution of vexed Naga political issue before elections.

The Core Committee after holding three subsequent meetings from January 27 to 29 with the apex tribal bodies, intending political parties and also the Naga nationalist political groups, had concluded not to participate in the state Assembly elections to show the seriousness of the entire Naga populace towards solution of the Naga issue.
This resulted in the January 29 joint declaration by 11 political parties, including ruling NPF, BJP and Congress.
However, BJP was the first to back out and also declare its 20 candidates after coming to a seat-sharing agreement with Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP).
Subsequently, the other political parties also declared their candidates.