Chakhesang Public Organisation requests Nagaland govt. to distance itself from Naga Mothers’ Association

DIMAPUR: The Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) has requested the government of Nagaland to distance itself from the Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA), saying that it is no longer a mandated organisation.

It came two days after the Angami Public Organisation (APO) appealed to the state government to refrain from considering the “un-mandated” NMA from political and social issues.

In a letter addressed to the chief secretary of the state, the CPO said that the NMA does not “represent the welfare and interest of our sons and daughters” as the Chakhesang Mothers’ Association (CMA) had disassociated itself from it in 2017.

“The deliberate attempt by certain NMA members to dilute and destroy the customary laws and traditions of our people and the flagrant disregard shown towards the popular sentiments of the Nagas is becoming almost intolerable to digest, to the extent that a permanent and unhealthy wedge of suspicion and mistrust is being sown between the two genders of society,” read the letter.

It said ‘the NMA or any un-mandated person or group has no business in interfering with our customary laws and traditions’.

Maintaining that “CPO is the only mandated organisation which has the popular support of its people and the moral right to speak on behalf of the Chakhesang people”, it said the government should seriously take its request into consideration.

“The CPO should be consulted if and when any discussion and deliberations for change/modifications are required on any issue that has to do with the Chakhesang people, their customs and traditions, beliefs, and their land and its resources,” it added.