A State Level seminar on Clean Election

As part of the SVEEP initiative, a State Level seminar on Clean Election was organized by the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer Nagaland with participants from various Church associations of Nagaland on 26^th September, 2023 at De Oriental Grand, Kohima. The main purpose of the seminar was to help augment the ongoing Clean Election Movement of the NBCC and to provide a platform where there is an exchange of information and ideas to take the movement forward. Shri T. Mhabemo Yanthan, IAS, Commissioner of Nagaland graced the programme as the Guest of Honour and Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho, General Secretary, Nagaland Baptist Church Council also attended the seminar as Special Guest.

The seminar also included technical sessions with resource persons from both the CEO’s office and the Church establishment. The resource persons were Shri. Awa Lorin, Joint CEO (Topic- Legal Provisions on Electoral Roll and Conduct of Elections), Shri. Toshimeren Aier, Assistant CEO (Topic- Reflections on State Assembly Election, 2023), Dr. Villo Naleo, Convenor, Clean Election Movement, NBCC (Topic- Clean Election as a platform for ushering desirable change) and Dr. Pangernungba Kichu, Professor of Society, Christan Ethics and Contextual Theology, Oriental Theological Seminary, Chumoukedima (Topic- Clean Election Movement Challenges and tasks ahead).