DIMAPUR, AUGUST 14 (MExN): The GPRN/NSCN today stated that the Naga issue cannot be solved “behind closed doors and with one man.”
This was said in a statement from the MIP of the GPRN/NSCN to mark the Naga Independence Day on August 14, which was celebrated at Khehoi Camp, with GPRN/NSCN Convenor, NPAC Kughalu Mulatonu as the Chief Guest.
The GPRN/NSCN, in its statement said that this is the day to “remember and salute our patriots, the leaders and the freedom followers, who undertook the great task of proclaiming and declaring the freedom of the British administered Naga areas on August 14, 1947.”
It meanwhile stated that the “focal view” of the Framework Agreement signed between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India “is more of economic arrangement for a particular section rather than a political solution for all Nagas.”
It added that the “sane voices of intellectuals, pioneers and actual stakeholders are being drowned by the preposterous and adulatory statements of few sponsored NGOs, civil societies and the Nagaland state government.”
It reminded that the people “wield greater power and authority than the signatories of agreements.” The GPRN/NSCN while appreciating the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s gesture, reiterated that “talks with a single faction will not end the Indo Naga political issue.”
“Naga issue cannot be solved behind closed doors and with one man. Every Naga tribe occupies a compact and specific area since immemorial. Many dwell under Myanmar and Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, all divided without their consent. The present Nagaland state and the tribes inhabiting it have been the fortress and the inexhaustible reservoir of freedom fighters. An arrangement between GoI and a single faction, shrouded in mystery for more than a year do not augur well for the people of Nagaland,” it stated.
It viewed that the “future of the people of Nagaland is no less important than that of the future of Burma Nagas, Manipur Nagas, Assam Nagas or Arunachal Nagas.”
The GPRN/NSCN asserted that “together with our people,” it would “pursue a comprehensive political discourse that is transparent and charted by the people.”
‘We should not belittle ourselves’
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 14 (MExN): President of the NNC/GDRN (Non Accord), Kiumukam Yimchunger, on the occasion of Naga Independence Day, appealed to all Naga political groups to “work together and raise our heads and stand firm for our common goals.”
He stated that the “Nagas should not belittle ourselves that we have not enough land, population or are unworthy; we have our uniqueness in every way.”
“We have enough land, our traditions, our customs, and civilisation since India was created. Many talented and brave leaders have sacrificed their life, taken time and wealth for the liberation of Nagaland,” he stated.
He asserted that the NNC/GDRN (Non-Accord) “shall continuously pursue what our pioneer had dreamed for the Nagas. For the powers and chairs are temporary but the nationhood is not, and the size or the stature of the leadership is measured by the people only.”
Yimchunger further stated that the Naga people “have produced multiple intellectuals, scholars, think tanks, orators, writers and multiple rich people and above all many statesmen.” “Now we have this question to ponder that what will be the best for the people whether to continue to march bearing legacy of the sovereignty that was sowed deeply by the bygone leaders or to live under the bondage of other,” he concluded.
