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06/05/2011: "NSCN-IM refutes Indian intelligence reports Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network"

NSCN-IM refutes Indian intelligence reports Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, Refuting a newspaper report that two Thai nationals arrested from Kolkata airport a few days ago with a huge amount of cash were carriers of the NSCN-IM, the Naga outfit today countered it by terming the report as "a matter of surprise" .

The news report had said, Customs officials at Kolkata airport seized $60,000 in cash from Amphai Thongthang, a 33-year-old Thai woman who landed in Kolkata from Bangkok accompanied by her sister Parcee Thongthang.

"Thongthang was handed over to the revenue intelligence officers who found that Thongthang, the widow of a Naga youth, was supposed to deliver the cash to an NSCN-IM operative.

A probe has also revealed that her husband was a carrier of a Naga rebel outfit.

Thongthang carried on her husband's work after he died in November last year.

Investigation revealed that she got the cash from a Naga night club owner in Bangkok," the news report said.

"Intelligence officers believe that NSCN-IM, gets a major chunk of its total funds from Thailand and the Philippines where it enjoys considerable clout," the news report added.

Reacting to this news item, the NSCN-IM on Saturday said, "The report in some papers that two women from Thailand namely Amphai Thongthang and Parcee Thongthang are NSCN operatives has come as a matter of surprise.

The Naga outfit only admitted that the two Thai women have in-laws in India who happens to be Nagas.

It is a matter of family relationship, a link that nobody can deny to them.

"The NSCN, therefore, strongly refutes the Indian intelligence's allegation that links the two Thai women to the NSCN," the press note of the Naga outfit said today.

It is simply a fabrication of the Indian intelligence to counter the organization in a manner bereft of any concrete evidence other than fabrication, the press communique of the NSCN-IM said.

The NSCN is involved with massive expenditures.

But the expenditures are met by collection from people's contributions in the form of taxes and other commercial establishments in Nagalim, it added.

The NSCN's political campaign across the world, the outfit clarified.

Any other conclusion made by the Indian intelligence against this goes in line with the usual practice of going overboard to smear the NSCN's name, the Naga outfit reacted.
NSCN/GPRN refute allegation of Indian intelligence MIP/GPRN
The report in some papers that two women from Thailand namely Amphai Thongthang and Parcee Thongthang are NSCN operative has come as a matter of surprise. Given the fact that they have in-laws in India who happened to be Nagas it must be a matter of family relationship, the link that nobody can deny to them, and nothing much beyond that. Besides, NSCN is not aware of their coming to India other than the media report. The NSCN, therefore, strongly refuted the Indian intelligence’s allegation that linked the two Thai women to NSCN.
Going into details of the intelligence reports NSCN would never admit that the two women are used for money transactions. Their purpose of visit to India have nothing to do with NSCN getting fund from abroad and the women doing the role of carriers. This is simply a fabrication of Indian intelligence to counter the organization in the manner bereft of any concrete evidence other than fabrication.
There is no denying of the fact that NSCN’s system of functioning involved massive expenditures. But the expenditures are met by collection from the people’s contribution in the form of tax and other commercial establishments in Nagalim. There are no sources whatsoever generated from abroad and routed to the organization’s treasury by any means. As part of the NSCN’s political campaign across the world activities can be visibly seen in different countries. But the expenditures are all met by the organization’s treasury and not through any other sources. Any other conclusion made by the Indian intelligence against this is goes in line with the usual practice of going overboard to smear NSCN’s name.
Issued by MIP/GPRN

I Imkong out of Cong, should quit as MLA’ morungexpress
Dimapur, June 4 (MExN): Former Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) president I Imkong contenting that he is still a ‘member of the Congress at the Centre’ is termed “absurd” by two vice presidents of the NPCC. “The Congress, whether at the Centre or the State are one and same,” stated NPCC vice presidents Nillo Rengma and Tingyeih in response to the expelled Congress leader.
“The day he was expelled from the party, he automatically ceased to be a Member of the Congress, whether in the state or at the centre. He should stop misleading the public with concocted/ fabricated allegations,” the response from the two stated. The NPCC also called on him to resign from the legislature because he was elected on INC ticket. “He should honor this call and gracefully resign from the legislature too instead of creating further problems to the party.”
Stating that the NPCC had acted ‘very much within the ambit of the constitution’, Rengma and Konyak said, Imkong was served a show-cause notice under ‘article XIX (5) of the constitution.’ He was to reply on or before April 15, 2011. “However, on 27th May 2011, he personally brought his letter of counter charges that was signed by him on 17th March 2011 while the PCC Executive Committee meeting was going on. He should not blame the party high command for his own failure,” the NPCC vice presidents stated.
Quoting another article of the Congress’ constitution, the NPCC said it covers only a member of parliament and the AICC. “He is not a member of either the Parliament or the AICC. MLA is not a Member of Parliament. The Speaker of NLA has also issued an order on 1st June 2011 treating him as an unattached member on the strength of his expulsion order.”
“He is open to appeal to the Working Committee of the AICC. The Congress as a democratic party gives opportunity to even the disgruntled to be heard by the AICC but the delegation of authority to the PCC under Article XXVII (b) is very clear. The Congress party is not a one-man show. The decision of the PCC Executive Committee is binding on all its members.”
In addition, another article the vice presidents quoted was one about the power of the PCC to “call upon him to resign from the legislature because he was elected on INC ticket. He should honor this call and gracefully resign from the legislature too instead of creating further problems to the party.”
Rengma and Konyak’s statement added – “As for his excuse of not being able to campaign for the INC candidate in the last 26 Aonglenden by-elections due to health problem, he was in Arunachal Pradesh.”

Women ask govt to hold municipal polls immediately with quotas PTI | 11 IBN
Kohima, Jun 5 (PTI) Prominent Naga women organisations have demanded implementation of 33 per cent reservation of seats for women in the municipal and town council elections which were not held for past two years in the state.In a joint letter to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, frontal women organisations Naga Mothers' Association (NMA), Eastern Naga Women's Organisation (ENWO), Naga Women Hoho Dimapur and Watsu Mungdang urged the state government to hold the long awaited municipal elections at the earliest with 33 per cent quota for women.They asserted that the government's "excuses" for postponing polls holds no water because urban local bodies such municipals have nothing at all to do with the "so-called customary laws or practises".The government's excuses for not holding municipal elections with reservation provision "not to disturb the ongoing Naga peace process" was not tenable, the letter insisted.The organisations asserted that the reservation for women in towns and municipal councils have nothing to do with customary laws and practises or even the Article 371(A) of the Constitution, a special constitutional provision for the state of Nagaland."The constitutional rights of equality for women, as citizens, are enshrined in the Constitution of India and therefore cannot be superseded or denied," the organisations said.The letter reiterated that they stood by the representations and demands from various tribal women organisations submitted to the state government asking for implementation of the 33 per cent reservation for women in all town and municipal councils in accordance with the Nagaland Municipal Act (Amendment) 2006.They said the amended Act was passed unanimously by the Nagaland Assembly in 2006, and 81 seats had been identified as reserved for women by the government's subsequent notification."However, it was highly questionable that till date the government has failed to implement the amended Act and protect the constitutional rights of women," the frontal women organisations maintained.