Nadda visits Church; takes part in auto-rickshaw rally

September 17, 2022 23 Views No Comment

Kohima/Dimapur, September 17 (PTI): BJP president J P Nadda on Friday visited a church in the state capital and encouraged clergymen to plant trees.

Nadda, who is on a two-day visit to Nagaland since Thursday, paid a visit to Mary Help of Christians Cathedral, Kohima. He was accompanied by state BJP president Temjen Imna Along, and MP Phangnon Konyak.

The 16 feet high carved wood crucifix of the church is one of Asia’s largest crosses.

“It has been a great opportunity to visit the Holy Place, the Cathedral. Really was impressed with the arrangements for worship to God,” Nadda wrote in the visitors’ register of the Cathedral.

Nagaland is a Christian-majority state.

Parish Priest of the church, Father Vemedo Joseph and Chancellor of Kohima Diocese, Father Jacob Charallel, briefed the BJP leaders about the establishment of the church in 1989 and the different services held for the faithful.

Nadda encouraged the church administrators to plant more trees not only for scenic beauty but also for environmental protection.

The BJP chief then flew to Dimapur in a helicopter, where he along with Deputy Chief Minister Y Patton, got into a well-decorated auto-rickshaw from the airport.

Waving at people during the auto rickshaw rally, the two senior BJP leaders reached a resort in Chumoukedima area where a meeting was scheduled with intellectuals and professionals.

Before leaving for Delhi in the afternoon, the BJP chief had a meeting with the state BJP’s core committee at the residence of the deputy chief minister.

The deliberations of the meeting could not be immediately known.

‘We expect BJP’s commitment to be honoured,’ NGBF to Nadda

Dimapur, September 17 (MExN): The Nagaland Gaon Buras (Village Chief) Federation on Friday submitted a representation to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national President JP Nadda, stating that whatever was agreed and settled as on October 31, 2019 has to be translated into an agreement and enforced with immediate effect.

Nadda was on a two-day visit to Nagaland since September 15 to address a party rally at Old Riphyim Village in Wokha district among other engagements before leaving for Delhi on Friday afternoon.

The Federation, as “the custodians and arbiters of Naga customary system” welcomed the party president to the state and reminded him of its earlier communications with regard to the Peace Process in the state.

It said that the 2018 Assembly elections in Nagaland “could happen without any hindrances” following the ‘Election for Solution’ assurance given by the then BJP in-Charge of Nagaland Ram Madhav.

“The term of the present Assembly would be over by March 2023. We expect that the commitment given by the BJP would be honoured without any fail,” the Federation stated in the representation appended by President Sahleem Konyak and General Secretary Shikuto Zalipu.

According to the Federation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi “had already committed that what is possible would be done,” and therefore, “whatsoever, agreed and settled as on October 31, 2019 has to be translated into an agreement and enforced with immediate effect.”

The Elections, it said, “should be conducted only for the legally constituted legislature of Nagaland as per the settlement reached. It has been agreed by the Government of India that all pending matters would be resolved through democratic process after the political solution is settled so far.”

We assure you a peaceful and congenial environment for transition, it added.

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