DIMAPUR, FEB 5 (MExN): Pointing out that the Naga people’s journey “to the Promised Land is being delayed because of our disobedience to God”, the Council of Naga Baptist Churches stated that “Naga people rust and rot which have stopped us to get into the Promised Land since the last 60 years”.
“Factions have trusted upon their own ability and power and fought for their factional supremacy. In the past, we have tried our best for National Reconciliation but sadly, highly respected organisation GPRN, NSCN (IM) has refused to come to terms. At present, GPRN, NSCN (K) refused National Reconciliation with quit notice being served to Tangkhul community”, stated Rev. Dr. V. K. Nuh General Secretary Council of Naga Baptist Churches (CNBC) in a press note.
Further, the NNC/FGN, claimed that Naga ancestral homeland belongs to the Naga people but they seem to refuse to accept the reality of the people as Nagas, the CNBC stated.
And when the Nagaland State Government opened doors to the Naga people as a whole allowing Naga young brothers and sisters from Manipur to appear NBSE exams to be a part of Naga in their homeland, GPRN, NSCN (K) has kept strong reservations to hinder the youngsters from writing annual HSLC exam under NBSE, the CNBC further lamented.
As such, the CNBC appealed to the NSCN (K) to revoke their stance in preventing the students from appearing their HSLC examination but to welcome and make them homely so that they may become responsible citizens of next generation in our homeland. “We believe that national building is not only by power and guns but by collective enterprise of God’s mandate”.
“When Israel got independence, David Ben Gurion, the then Prime Minister of Israel emphatically declared that homeland is not gotten as a gift; it is not acquired by privilege or political contracts, it is not bought with gold or held by force. No, it is made with the sweat of the brow, it is the historic creation and collective enterprise of the people, the fruit of its peoples labor bodily, spiritually, morally over the span of generations”, the CNBS stated quoting the former Israeli Prime Minister.
Pointing out that Nagas must likewise learn a lesson from the Israelites who struggled for national spirit, the CNBC called for sinking down our differences and standing together hand in hand as a nation.
