Nagaland newspapers came in support of clean elections

In an autonomous decision, the seven newspapers in Nagaland came together for a cause and decided to support clean election campaign in Nagaland by refusing to publish any news related i.e. advertisement or news by village councils or any other non-political organization that seeks in support of one candidate. 

Source: Eastern Mirror

The ongoing clean election campaign was launched in Nagaland by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) on June 26, 2012 which has been going on until this year; the media came in support of clean election.

The church also has released a booklet to educate the people on the prevailing election system and urged the people to rise to the occasion to stand and act together for free and fair elections.
The campaign was led under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Zelhou keyho.

Advertisement that came out in local dailies 

But this will be good news to all the people of Nagaland because the media i.e newspaper will support the clean election.

Newspapers are the face of media in Nagaland, with the other visual media showing little impact on the local people on knowledge and information.In fact, Nagaland doesn’t even have a TV news channel except for Doordarshan which is being ignored after the introduction of DishTV in Nagaland.
All the editors of Nagaland Page, Nagaland Post, Eastern Mirror, Tir Yimyim, Ao Milen, Capi, Morung Express have taken the pledgeThis statement was made available to the people on Monday, November 21, 2016; a pledge taken to stop publishing any news or advertisement that hinder the right of human, one man one vote.
A report from eastern mirror reads “We, the Editors representing the newspapers in Nagaland State make this joint statement affirming our commitment to the call of “Clean Elections in Nagaland.”In the spirit of achieving ‘Clean Elections,’ our newspapers aspire to attain high standards of journalistic ethics and responsibility, and expect journalists throughout Nagaland to adhere to these same standards.”
Earlier, this issue was burnt up recently by Nagaland page editor during the National press day in Dimapur; she said that she doesn’t take any kind of news or advertisement related in her paper no support any political parties. Therefore she encourages the other paper who were present during the program/  The Morung Express editor on the spot pledge that it would do the same and would stop publishing any news related to support of one man.

Source: The Morung Express

Thus, Morung express became a hit on social media with the message

But now the real action will take place, lets us see how long this will last in Nagaland.