DIMAPUR, MAY 10 (MExN): Legislators of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) have resolved to request the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) to play a bigger in finding a solution to the protracted Naga political problem.
A press note from the Chief Minister’s Office today said the FNR had been rallying for unity among all different Naga political groups to unite so as to present a single, mutually-agreed demand to the Government of India and for cessation of all hostilities in the Naga society.
Stating that the efforts of the FNR in the last few years had seen “remarkable success in bringing together for discussion erstwhile warring-groups,” the CMO said that of late, “especially after the August 3, 2015 historic signing of the Framework Agreement between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM), the FNR’s activities have not been publicised.”
A meeting of the DAN legislators on Monday resolved to request the FNR to “be more proactive and work harder in trying to bring together the different Naga political groups towards a better understanding for bringing an early solution to the protracted Naga political problem [which would be] respectable and honourable at the earliest.” A three-point resolution adopted by the DAN legislators also reiterated the DAN Government’s stand to “continue to support the Framework Agreement.”
The CMO reminded that the Nagaland State Chief Minister, has on several occasions call for the Naga people to protect and uphold the unique history and identity and to standby the principle of “One People, One Vision and One Goal.”
It further quoted the Nagaland CM as stating: “we have to seriously introspect on our strengths and weaknesses and mend our ways as is expected of us by the nation and the world; and at the same time, the most important thing before us now is to sink our petty differences and strive concertedly for the greater good burying the hatchets and forgetting the hurt caused to each other in the past if at all any.”
It added that the present CM’s ministry is “credited for the formation of Nagaland Legislators’ Forum on Naga Political Issue,” and the constituting of the Nagaland Parliamentary Working Committee, which had met central leaders to discuss the need for a solution to the Naga issue.
The CMO further informed that Monday’s DAN legislators meet also “resolved to support and solidly stand by the present DAN Government under the leadership of the Chief Minister, TR Zeliang.”
