Dimapur, May 3 (MExN): The NSCN (K) has accused the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of the Government of India (GoI) of “creating chasms” between Naga national workers and the Naga public.
In the wake of the NIA arresting three Nagaland State Government officials for ‘providing funds’ to the NSCN (K), an outfit that is ‘banned’ by the GoI, the Naga armed group has questioned the alleged “anti-Naga and anti-people” policies and actions of the NIA.
On the other hand, it observed, the GoI has not taken up a single case of corruption, rampant in “every public establishment,” for investigation despite public outcry against it. It is a “conspiracy,” of the GoI, it claimed, to “foment divisions” and “create several criminal gangs” that torment the “economically challenged state of affairs.”
“Arresting of several state government officials by NIA for alleged nexus with NSCN is but a desperate attempt to veil off its frustration and failure to stem the Naga struggle and to coerce the patriotic and freedom loving Nagas to abstain from performing one’s obligation towards national cause,” the NSCN (K) stated in a press release from its MIP today.
In the same breath, the NSCN (K) warned that it will “not tolerate any departmental authorities collaborating with NIA.” It will thus take “punitive action” against “conniving traitor officials individually,” a consequence for which the NIA will be held accountable, it maintained.
Taxation
The NSCN (K) press release today affirmed that taxation is a “conscious political exercise of the Naga people that legitimises the mandated national aspiration for sovereign independence.”
“The common Nagas are ever supportive and finds common ground with NSCN/GPRN’s self-governing mechanism of taxes, donations, stipulations etc,” noted the NSCN (K). “Taxation always formed an integral part of Naga self-governance.”
Thus, the NSCN (K) will continue levying “reasonable and affordable” taxes which, it stated, the people had been “willingly subscribing to not only for the sustenance of our national struggle but in preservation of the inherent rights to self-govern and self-determine our destiny as practised for centuries by our forefathers in an independent sovereign village republics.”
Alien authority
The GoI, it alleged, has created and sponsored “several anti-Naga factions” to “combat” the NSCN (K) and “mislead” the Naga people, thus “discrediting the genuine people’s mandated struggle.”
Urging Nagas to “rise against an alien authority persecuting the upright Naga public servants while massive corruption in public offices remains unchecked and criminals roams scot free,” the armed group asked the Naga people to “seriously ponder over the free reign and patronage being accorded to certain group by NIA and GOI to publicly enforce exaction of 12% taxes on State’s public servants when it is an open fact that the group has acceded to the condition ‘acceptance of Indian constitution’ as repeatedly affirmed by top Indian political leaders.”
