Newmai News Network
Dimapur | October 15
Amid reports doing the rounds in New Delhi today that the government of India has secured a written commitment from the Isak-Muivah group of the NSCN that the latter outfit will accept the Indian Constitution, and also that the Naga group has also recognised the impracticality of redrawing state boundaries in the interest of peace in the Northeast, Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and 19 other Nagaland legislators have told Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde this morning that they don’t want ‘election but solution’.
Meanwhile, a well placed source in New Delhi disclosed that the issue of Naga integration is no more in the picture in the much hyped would-be ‘Naga settlement’. When queried by Newmai News Network on the report of The Indian Express in today’s edition that “the Centre has secured a written commitment from the separatist NSCN (IM) that it will accept the Indian Constitution” and also the recognition on the “impracticality of redrawing state boundaries in the interest of peace in the Northeast”, NSCN-IM top leader V.S Atem who is the emissary to NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah and the outfit’s chairman Isak Chisi Swu, stated that he would not comment anything at this juncture.
“This is not the right time to give comments. I will dwell on the matter another day, please don’t mind, please, please,” was what V.S Atem had to say.
