RPP slams govt’s compulsory Covid vax directive

January 17, 2022 39 Views No Comment

DIMAPUR, JAN 17 (NPN): Rising People’s Party (RPP) has slammed the state government’s recent notification making Covid-19 vaccine compulsory for students of class IX and above in order to attend offline classes, terming it as discriminatory and highly outrageous.

Pointing out that deputy commissioner of Kiphire had through a notification on December 3, 2021 made it mandatory for anyone entering the district to be vaccinated and the notification of ADC Meluri November 29, 2021 also made it illegal for unvaccinated people to enter the ADC office and SBI, Meluri, RPP asked “Are we living in a banana republic that DCs/administrative officers should behave as dictators, issuing illegal notifications?”

RPP wondered whether the State government knew of the numerous court rulings in India that made it clear that vaccination was not mandatory, or that services could not be denied to citizens based on vaccination status, including their entry into airports, trains, malls, cinema halls, recreation areas, etc.

Asking the UDA whether it would deny students their future, the party wanted to know which science was the ruling coalition relying on, or whether quacks were running the State.

When vaccination was not mandatory, the party asked why the ruling coalition was so keen to show 100% vaccination status in the State and why government officers were moving about as safai karamcharis coercing villagers to vaccinate.

Further, wondering whether this was about Central funding and if the UDA was following Himanta Biswa Sarma, the party said the ruling coalition was behaving more and more like Sarma’s B team on Naga political issue to vaccination/COVID-19 policy. Appealing to all villagers to report to the party on its email id risingpeoplesparty@gmail.com in case of any officer or village council forcing anyone to take mandatory vaccination, the party in a statement declared that it would file FIRs on their behalf.

Before the State government tries to impose its mandatory vaccination policy upon the hapless general public, the party demanded that the former should first provide data on the number of frontline workers already vaccinated.

RPP demanded that the government should withdraw/modify the flawed notifications without delay, and expressed serious apprehension of breakdown of law and order situation in the State.

Challenging the ruling coalition for an open debate on the issue, the party asserted that it would not allow civil liberties of the people to be curtailed.