Dimapur, NOV 2 (MExN): The United Naga Council has reacted strongly to a slew of charges leveled against it by Congress MLA RL Thekho. The charges include “special rapport” with the NSCN-IM to ‘wipe out’ the Congress from Naga-dominated areas of Manipur.
The UNC in a clarification issued through its Information & Publicity Secretary S Milan termed as “illusion and without any foundation” the MLA’s allegation that the NSCN-IM is using the council to ‘wipe out’ the Congress from all Naga areas in Manipur. The UNC being accused of having a special rapport with the NSCN-IM also holds no water at all since all the Naga civil societies including the UNC is fully supporting and backing the ongoing Indo-Naga peace process for bringing about a honorable and acceptable solution, the clarification stated.
The council also informed that the MLA attended the Naga Hoho’s dialogue on October 25, 2006 at Kohima. “…but instead of addressing his fellow Nagas RK Thekho left the meeting halfway and willfully chose the media to vent out his frustration in the form of ‘lone’ spokesman of the party he represents” UNC stated. According to the council, the MLA has already become a “person non grata” in his village Tungjoy. On October 14, 2006 when the Tungjoy public gathered to decide on a candidate for the general elections, RK Thekho stormed out of the village assembly before it concluded knowing fully that he had lost his support base. Under this compelling circumstance, he has changed his strategy towards NSCN-IM and started ‘using UNC bashing so that he could be in the good book of the high command and retain the Congress (I) ticket for the forthcoming general assembly elections to be held in February/March 2007,’ UNC asserted.
“RK Thekho was one of the former presidents of the UNC. We held him in high esteem. He was our leader but now his true color has emerged beyond any doubt. Therefore, we can say in the least that he is in the process of making yet another Judas Iscariot at the cost of the Nagas’ political rights”, the UNC stated while pointing out that he and his ilk did not express a single word of support when the affiliation movement to the Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) was on led by the ANSAM and the NSF.
