DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 26 : With more than 800 listed voters, from 530 households, the villagers of Aoyimti in Dimapur on Saturday pledged their support to a clean elections campaign as had been initiated by the youth ministry of the Aoyimti Baptist Church.
The villagers came at the resolution in amid a daylong seminar on clean elections here today at the Aoyimti Baptist Church.
The editor of Ao news daily, K Temjen Jamir, and Dr Pangernungba Kichu, a teacher of Christian Ethics at the Oriental Theological Seminary, were the resource persons at the event.
The villagers resolved to form an 11-member Aoyimti Clean Election Core Committee (ACECC) comprising members of the Aoyimti village council, the Aoyimti Watsu Mungdang (women), lanur telongjem (youth), and students’ union, the church and its youth ministry.
“The ACECC will provide a common platform to all the intending candidates to deliver the political campaign speech. All the intending candidates will be provided a pledge form to sign for a clean and fair election during the common platform speech,” according to the villagers’ resolution.
“Setting up of political parties’ base camps within Aoyimti village jurisdiction will be prohibited. Use of intoxicants and anti-social elements will be totally prohibited during the election. Distribution of gifts and money by the political parties will be stringently prohibited.” They resolved that members of Aoyimti village would not sell their vote “for cash or kind” to any political candidate or their associates.
The dictum, ‘One person, one vote’ will be strictly maintained.
“On the polling day, refreshments will be arranged by the ACECC for the polling officers, presiding officers, polling agents and ushers. No other political parties will be allowed to serve/arrange refreshment/feats,” the resolution read.
