Naga protesters burn Amit Shah’s effigy, insist for withdrawal of AFSPA

Tizit (Nagaland): The campaign against the central forces in Nagaland and demand for revocation of AFSPA is gaining momentum each day and the target of attacks is now Home Minister Amit Shah.

Effigies of the BJP strongman was consigned to flames at Tizit town on Saturday in Mon district.

The remote district close to Myanmar witnessed unprecedented gory episode when central forces and 21 para anti insurgency crack team killed as many as 15 people by opening fire indiscriminately on Dec 4 and 5.

On December 5, the angry protest in district headquarters Mon saw local Konyak Naga protesters vandalising 27  Assam Rifles camp and a Jawan was also killed.

BJP shares power in Nagaland along with regional parties NDPP and NPF.

Both the parties have gone vocal demanding immediate withdrawal of AFSPA and even the state cabinet has passed a resolution authorising Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to write a formal letter to the centre ventilating the need to withdraw AFSPA.

Meghalaya Chief Minister and NPP leader Conrad Sangma, also an ally of BJP has joined the chorus and demanded withdrawal of AFSPA.

The controversial Act is often called ‘Black Law’ and in July this year a galaxy of opposition leaders including H D Deve Gowda and Sonia Gandhi had written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention on the matter.

The army and central para military forced during UPA stint in 2012-13 had opposed withdrawal of the AFSPA and Disturbed Areas Act in north east and Kashmir saying such a move would create major occupational hazards for them. – India News Stream