23 years of negotiations a ‘deliberate torture’: NPCC

Gen Secy AICC I/c Nagaland Tripura and Sikkim Kuljit Singh Nagar with NPCC President K Therie and  NPCC Working President Bobby Panicker on September 19. (Photo Courtesy: NPCC)

Gen Secy AICC I/c Nagaland Tripura and Sikkim Kuljit Singh Nagar with NPCC President K Therie and NPCC Working President Bobby Panicker on September 19. (Photo Courtesy: NPCC)

NPCC meetsAICC and Congress Parliamentary leaders for early solution

Dimapur, September 20 (MExN):  The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Sunday said that 23 years of negotiation is a “deliberate torture to peace loving citizens.”

It is not reasonable for the Government of India and negotiating teams to further the negotiations, it asserted.

The NPCC on Sunday informed that it met AICC and its Parliamentary Leaders of both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha on September 19 for support in view of the PMO’s announcement to resolve the Naga political issue within September end 2020.

“The meeting reviewed Nagaland’s political journey from the Naga Hills Memorandum submission to Sir Simon Commission on 10th January 1929, the milestones and achievements till date,” a press release from NPCC president K Therie said. The NPCC also said it conveyed the stakeholders’ aspirations and demands in the meeting.

Kuljit Singh Nagra MLA and General Secretary AICC, in charge of Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim “heard the plight and living conditions of the people being subjected to multi-Government writs,” the release added.

The Frame Work Agreement was further discussed, along with the issues raised in stakeholders’ consultative meetings with the Interlocutor who is also the Governor of Nagaland.

Nagra reportedly assured to take forward the issue to the Congress President, CWC Members and Congress Parliamentary Leaders in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha for their consideration and to ensure that the interests of the stakeholders are well protected.