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‘Women should struggle for their rights’: Imkong

Dimapur, February 21 (MExN): Nagaland Home Minister, Imkong L Imchen today said that the issue of women’s reservation is a frontline agenda of the DAN government. However, women have to struggle for their rights.Speaking as the chief guest at the Silver Jubilee celebration of the Watsu Telongjem Dimapur (Ao Union Dimapur), the state Home Minister exhorted the womenfolk that in order to obtain their rights they should struggle for it courageously and preserver for it. Identifying women emancipation, liberty and women’s rights as a very lively and burning issue, Imchen lamented that the Watsu Mungdang (apex Ao women organisation) could not raise its voice when the issue of women reservation cropped up in the Mokokchung Municipal Council last year, and said that the Watsu Mungdang could not say anything out of fear. He also said that when the men folk in Mokokchung town resisted the 33 percent reservation of seats in the Mokokchung Municipal Council, the presence of Watsu Mungdang, and its Units and even the Naga Mothers’ Association was not felt ‘at that particular point of time for all practical reasons’. “Only through proper struggle you will get your rights,” remarked the Home Minister. To this regard, Imchen said that for the women to fight for her rights; it should start from the family and added that she must win over her husband and her children. He noted the importance of education as a tool towards empowerment of women, and the effective use of the many clauses in the constitution which guarantee the rights and liberties of women.Pending Naga political issue- failure of the GOIBesides, the Home Minister also said that the pending of the Naga political issue for the past 60 years by the Indian Government is not a success story but instead a failure. “They think that pending the Naga issue is a success. They think they have won. No. No,” said Imchen who added that for him ‘it is rather a failure’. (Morung Express)

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