DIMAPUR, July 30 NNN: The NSCN-IM has asked the Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) to exist as a pressure and not otherwise.
In the last few months, ACAUT has been resorting to different modes of movement against the unabated taxation imposed on the business community and the people by underground organisations in Nagaland. ACAUT had also held rallies and bandhs in Nagaland last month in Nagaland in this regard.
On Tuesday, reacting to ACAUT’s activities, the NSCN-IM said, “The menace of unabated taxation falling out of having too many nationalist groups in Nagalim and the pressure thereupon to the tax payer is regrettable. Thus, NSCN has been doing its own course of action to stop illegal taxation as well as unauthorized collection from within and without. It is of the concern to the general public that, when Action Committee against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) was formed with an objective to stop multiple taxation, we have given our support and have extended as much cooperation as possible even beyond the demands made by ‘ACAUT’ yet the organization concern instead of responding with the spirit of oneness and camaraderie have been hurling salvo of unabated allegation without any standard of decency again and again”.
“As expected, when we try to correct the ‘ACAUT’ from prowling in an area of having political implication, the serpent surfaced in the form of N. George former CFMG/CFSB chairman backing up their adopted child in no time (refer: Nagaland Post, 30th July 2013). This has made us question the credibility and sincerity of ‘ACAUT’” the NSCN-IM added.
The NSCN-IM then advised ACAUT that the latter should know that, the struggle of the Nagas since its inception is not about economic sovereignty as you proudly profess but it is about political sovereignty which supersedes all. It is also senseless that you have blamed taxation as the reason for the increasing immoral activities in Naga society. It will be better if the members of ‘ACAUT’ should sometime move out from the cocoon of taxation and see the bigger reason behind such happening. While taking up the cause of multiple taxations, ‘ACAUT’ is advised not to get too excited in their adventure. And also it is to inform you that NSCN is never under any organization, the NSCN-IM stated.
“ACAUT, though, we shall continue to extend our cooperation must not in any way try to exert authority in the market but exist as a pressure group which we repeat, shall function “within its bounds and limits and not dilute its focus less the marauding adversaries turn them into another form of faction”. Let it also be known to all that, NSCN has a better thing to do then jumping in the bandwagon of press war which only fulfilled the purpose of the adversaries,” the NSCN-IM further stated.
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