Church body launches Clean Election Campaign

With Nagaland scheduled to go to the polls early next year, the apex body of churches - Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) has launched its apolitical Clean Election Campaign.
"The Clean Election campaign is an apolitical by NBCC, which is neither a political party nor is influenced by any political agenda within or without," its general secretary Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho said today.
"The movement is not against or for any political party. It is also not against politicians, not to pull them down or push them up. But a movement to do just what is right and what it is meant to be," he said.

NBCC, he said, is neither against election nor politicians. "We are deeply concerned with the electioneering system that has gone corrupt in our state, seemingly affecting every system of our existence."
The system has now consumed the Nagas making the people ineffective and victims to the evil practices of election. "It has affected every system and it has become like a virus killing us softly," he said.
The movement aims to educate and speak against the corrupt system of election in the state and appeal to the people's conscience to use their birthright without monetary or any other influence, Keyho said.

Executive director of Angami Baptist Church Council, Rev Atsi Dolie said that the campaign should not just be for the state assembly election, but should also be associated with elections practices for village councils, students' unions, municipal and town councils.