DIMAPUR: Congress candidate for Nagaland Lok Sabha seat S Supongmeren Jamir urged all legislators, ex-parliamentarians, ex-candidates, village council leaders and elders of the state to use every agency at their disposal to create a free and fair voting environment and offer the opportunity to each voter to have a free say in choosing the trajectory of their destinies at this crucial juncture of their lives.
In an appeal, Jamir said: “We believe that the verdict in this edition of the general elections, more than ever before, will have far-reaching consequences, even up to the extent of affecting the inclusive spirit of the Constitution which have so far managed to delicately hold together the idea of India.”
According to him, this apprehension does not come from a place of baseless rhetoric or wilful dishonesty but stems from “our shared experiences of the past 10 years which have been at the very best a painful era of unprecedented socio-economic distress and injustices with damning assaults on the rights of the religious minority communities having become the order of the day”.
Keeping faith in the weight of the people’s prayers and expecting only the most positive of interventions from their end, Jamir said: “We simply can’t afford the possibility of anything otherwise.”
He also sought their consideration in a matter of “great bipartisan importance”.