DIMAPUR, APRIL 26 (MExN): The Rengma Hoho (RH) today said it is “apprehensive of the Indo-Naga political agreement” and wondered as to “how Rengmas living in Assam are excluded in the agreement.”
“Rengmas were living in our own territory since time immemorial and we are very much part of the Naga political movement since its inception,” pointed out the Rengma Hoho in a press note today.
It further informed that the “Rengmas have submitted a memorandum to the Sundaram Commission against division of Rengmas into different administrative unit and have appealed to the present negotiating parties—both Indian and Naga leaders, and demanded that Rengmas desired to live under one administrative roof.”
“We still commit to our stand and have been supporting the present Naga political negotiation hoping to get justice in the event of political settlement that Rengmas will not be deprived of their rights to maintain their own administration and social system,” it stated.
As such, the Rengma Hoho appealed to the negotiating parties not to neglect the Rengmas in Assam in the event of a final agreement.
If no justice is done to their demand, the Rengma Hoho said, it would treat any agreement as “betrayal and will have peoples discourse to challenge any settlement that subjugate the Rengmas.” It further asserted that any “intentional political decision to dehumanize the Rengmas will not be accepted.”
