The Isak-Muivah faction of the extremist National Socialist Council of Nagaland, or NSCN (IM), has said that the “genuine taxes” it levies can not be equated with extortion.
The group, which calls itself the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, has been on ceasefire mode because July 1997.
In a statement provided on June 27, the NSCN (IM) made it clear that it had the “intrinsic right of any sovereign people and country” to collect taxes from individuals and commercial facilities.
The declaration remained in reaction to Nagaland Guv R.N. Ravi’s June 16 letter to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, reported initially by The Hindu, bring up the State government for the collapse of order circumstance.
The Guv stated that armed gangs were running Nagaland, questioning the sovereignty and integrity of the nation and challenging the constitutionally-established State federal government.
Mr. Ravi is likewise Centre’s interlocutor for the peace process with the NSCN (IM) and other extremist groups active in Nagaland and adjoining States in the northeast as well as Myanmar.
” This (levying taxes) is the universal practice as seen all