Tripartite talks held at Senapati

Newmai News Network Senapati | August 11 The tripartite talks on the district creation issue held today at the DRDA Conference Hall, Senapati district headquarters, witnessed "fiery expressions" from the United Naga Council (UNC) team before they signed a 4-point agreed term. The talk which started at 11:00 am was chaired by Satyendra Garg, the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India, and continued for about 4 hours.   One of the points said, “In terms of the agreement of the March 19, 2017 talks to redress the grievances of the United Naga Council (UNC) in respect of the creation of the new districts, the Government of Manipur will initiate appropriate steps in right earnest in this regard”.   The agreed point of the March 19, 2017 states that “the grievances of the United Naga Council which led to the imposition of the economic blockade by them was recognized as there was non-adherence to the four Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the Government of India’s assurance on the matter. The Government of Manipur agrees to start consultation with all stakeholders”.   UNC sources informed Newmai News Network this afternoon that, in the course of the talks today the UNC team almost walked out of the hall as they demanded from the Manipur Government representatives to "nullify" all the measures including official procedures on the new districts and the various comments of Chief Minister N Biren Singh on the issue in recent times.   The UNC leaders also told the Manipur Government representatives that they have been made a hostage of the tripartite talks and victimised by the measures taken up by the latter. “We told the Manipur Government’s ministerial team that the Nagas are all prepared to resume the agitation,” said the UNC sources.   Responding to the charges, the three Manipur ministers told the UNC team that “they are participating in the tripartite talks for the first time, and that, they will go back and convey things to the Chief Minister.”