Imphal, November 16 (PTI): Manipur chief minister O Ibobi Singh has sought clarification from the Centre on media reports that the government is considering granting a ‘supra state body’ status to Nagas settled across the Northeast to enable them to preserve their culture, identity and customary laws under one body.
Official sources said that the chief minister wrote letters to the Prime Minister and the Union home minister after reports were published in a section of the local media that the centre was considering keeping all Nagas in Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam under a ‘supra state body’ before Christmas.
Meanwhile, Newmai News reported Chief minister of Manipur Ibobi Singh will be leaving Imphal for New Delhi in a couple of days time to meet the central leaders including the Prime Minister and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi in this regard. A cabinet meeting was held this evening in connection with the Supra State Body news.
On Monday, the Manipur chief minister had denied having any knowledge with regard to the “Supra-State Body” for the Nagas, saying the Central Government has not yet intimated to the State Government pertaining to the information revealed by Guwahati based Seven Sisters Post which was reproduced by some leading Imphal dailies of the State on Monday.
According to The Seven Sisters Post newspaper reproduced by Imphal based dailies today, the negotiations between the Indian Government and the NSCN-IM faction are now in its final stages, and Seven Sisters Post newspaper has access to all its many details. The final settlement envisages a “special federal relationship” between India and Nagaland and creation of a”Supra-state body” for the Nagas of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to be given as this year’s Christmas gift to “preserve, protect and promote their cultural, social and customary practices”, according to a report published by The Seven Sisters Post.
The offer to create a pan-Naga ‘Supra State Body’, instead of the “Greater Nagalim” demanded by the NSCN, has been touted by Indian as the “Second best option for the Naga people”, the report said.
Official sources said that the chief minister wrote letters to the Prime Minister and the Union home minister after reports were published in a section of the local media that the centre was considering keeping all Nagas in Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam under a ‘supra state body’ before Christmas.
Meanwhile, Newmai News reported Chief minister of Manipur Ibobi Singh will be leaving Imphal for New Delhi in a couple of days time to meet the central leaders including the Prime Minister and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi in this regard. A cabinet meeting was held this evening in connection with the Supra State Body news.
On Monday, the Manipur chief minister had denied having any knowledge with regard to the “Supra-State Body” for the Nagas, saying the Central Government has not yet intimated to the State Government pertaining to the information revealed by Guwahati based Seven Sisters Post which was reproduced by some leading Imphal dailies of the State on Monday.
According to The Seven Sisters Post newspaper reproduced by Imphal based dailies today, the negotiations between the Indian Government and the NSCN-IM faction are now in its final stages, and Seven Sisters Post newspaper has access to all its many details. The final settlement envisages a “special federal relationship” between India and Nagaland and creation of a”Supra-state body” for the Nagas of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to be given as this year’s Christmas gift to “preserve, protect and promote their cultural, social and customary practices”, according to a report published by The Seven Sisters Post.
The offer to create a pan-Naga ‘Supra State Body’, instead of the “Greater Nagalim” demanded by the NSCN, has been touted by Indian as the “Second best option for the Naga people”, the report said.
