{"id":84424,"date":"2014-06-24T14:32:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=66418"},"modified":"2014-06-24T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:32:50","slug":"nagaland-ncp-and-bjp-official-notification-for-merger-expected-by-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2014\/06\/24\/nagaland-ncp-and-bjp-official-notification-for-merger-expected-by-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagaland: NCP and BJP official notification for merger expected by Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">By Oken Jeet Sandham<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">KOHIMA, June 24 (NEPS):<\/span>\u00a0 Former office bearers of NCP, Nagaland Unit led by its former president Imtilemba Sangtam, MLA, have appeared before the Speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Chotisuh Sazo at his Office Chamber\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990415043\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to validate their resolution passed on June 16, 2014 for their formal \u201cmerger claim\u201d with the BJP in Nagaland.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_66421\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/speaker-and-imtilemba-and-team12.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66421\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/speaker-and-imtilemba-and-team12-580x226.jpg\" alt=\"Photo caption: Nagaland Assembly Speaker (left) at his office examining the documents of three NCP MLAs\u2019 merger claim with BJP, Nagaland. (Right) Former NCP office bearers with Imtilemba Sangtam, MLA, coming out after appearing before Speaker, Nagaland Assembly on June 24, 2014. Photo by Oken Jeet Sandham\/NEPS\" width=\"580\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo caption: Nagaland Assembly Speaker (left) at his office examining the documents of three NCP MLAs\u2019 merger claim with BJP, Nagaland. (Right) Former NCP office bearers with Imtilemba Sangtam, MLA, coming out after appearing before Speaker, Nagaland Assembly on June 24, 2014. Photo by Oken Jeet Sandham\/NEPS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sazo, who was out for a week, reached Kohima late last night and could not attend to the documents of the 3 Nagaland NCP MLAs\u2019 merger claim with the BJP in Nagaland. He, however, called the Nagaland Unit of NCP\u2019s former office bearers and their president to appear before him at his office\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990415044\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and validate their signatures appended to the \u201cresolution\u201d passed by them on June 16, 2014 for their merger claim along with their three MLAs with the BJP in Nagaland.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At about 3 PM on Tuesday, the former NCP Nagaland Unit office bearers led by Imtilemba Sangtam, MLA, appeared before the Speaker at his office chamber and verified all their signatures appended to their resolution for merger claim with the BJP, Nagaland.<\/div>\n<div>Talking to NEPS soon after appearing before the Speaker, Sangtam said the Speaker was now satisfied after crosschecking their credentials and expressed the hope that \u201cOfficial Notification\u201d for the \u201cMerger\u201d of three NCP MLAs along with their party supporters with the BJP, Nagaland could be issued by\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990415045\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n<div>Talking to NEPS at his office chamber\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990415046\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, Speaker Sazo disclosed that he had called the NCP office bearers and their president to appear before him at his office as he wanted to crosscheck their credentials on their \u201cResolution\u201d passed on June 16, 2014 of their formal \u201cmerger claim\u201d with the BJP, Nagaland.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sazo also disclosed that he received documents from the three NCP MLAs&#8212;Imtilemba Sangtam, Dr TM Lotha and Mmhonlumo Kikon&#8212;with their party resolutions and Nagaland BJP\u2019s acceptance resolution of the merger on June 16, 2014. \u201cBut I sought some more additional documents from them to furnish whether there was any resolution of the NCP National Political Party deciding to merge their party with the BJP or any authorization to the State Unit of NCP to take any decision in this regard. At the same time, whether there was any resolution of the BJP National Political Party accepting the merger of the NCP with BJP\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cBecause this is Constitutional matters and I need to thoroughly examine by consulting with legal and constitutional experts before any official notification with regard to the merger claim is issued from my office,\u201d Sazo explained. \u201cAt the same time, I also have to listen to the views and counter views expressed by the parties concerned to the present development following the three NCP MLAs\u2019 merger claim with the BJP.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Asked when he would give official notification to the three NCP MLAs\u2019 merger claim with the BJP, Nagaland, the Speaker said, \u201cMay not be today.\u201d Although he did not specify the date of issuing the official notification, it is believed that \u201cOfficial Notification\u201d for the three NCP MLAs\u2019 merger claim with BJP, Nagaland may be issued by\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1990415047\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2014\/06\/nagaland-ncp-and-bjp-official-notification-for-merger-expected-by-wednesday\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2014\/06\/nagaland-ncp-and-bjp-official-notification-for-merger-expected-by-wednesday\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oken Jeet Sandham KOHIMA, June 24 (NEPS):\u00a0 Former office bearers of NCP, Nagaland Unit led by its former president Imtilemba Sangtam, MLA, have appeared before the Speaker of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[179,200,40,43,330,2792,322,2793,1585,2799],"class_list":["post-84424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-beyond-the-horizon","tag-bjp","tag-headlines","tag-k-featured","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-merger-with-bjp","tag-nagaland-news","tag-ncp","tag-neps-news-service","tag-okenjeet-sandham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}