Dimapur, November 2 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has demanded that the Nagaland Legislative Assembly withdraw the Five-Point Resolution it adopted on August 3, 2021.
Among other things, the NPCC claimed that the Assembly, ignoring all the agreements and talks for the last 24 years and the voice of stakeholders had passed the resolution, demanding that the Government of India resume the Naga talks. It also said that there were enough hints that the intention was to carve out a Territorial Council within the Ntangki National Reserve Forest. "The NLA Resolution could be construed as Blank Cheque approval to carve out Ntangki Territorial Council or otherwise,” the party stated in its ‘Political Resolution’ document issued on Tuesday.
According to the document, the decision to make the demand was taken during a meeting of the NPCC’s Extended Executive Committee on October 29 wherein the house held in depth deliberations on the impending Naga political settlement in Nagaland.
Underscoring that Article 3 of the Constitution gives the authority to Parliament to increase, decrease or alter state boundaries and rename or name, the party demanded that the NLA withdraw the five-point resolution.
It said that the impending Naga political settlement had taken a paradigm shift from the historical aspiration of sovereignty and integration of all contiguous Naga inhabited areas to now threatening Nagaland State with infiltration and division that was constituted as the 16th state of Indian Union on December 1, 1963.
The release said the Framework Agreement signed with the NSCN (IM) on August 3, 2015, at the Prime Minister’s residence had agreed to settle the political problem within the Union of India “and that interstate boundaries shall not be changed confirming the claim and stand of Gol (Government of India) that sovereignty and integration are non-negotiable.” Along with this, it said that the Working Committee of the seven Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) had also signed the Agreed Position with the Government of India on November 17, 2017, and the parties concluded talks for Nagaland on October 31, 2019.
The NPCC went on to state that along with other stakeholders including the Nagaland tribe hohos, Nagaland Gaon Bura Federation and civil societies, it had endorsed in principle for implementation of the Agreed Position of the WC, NNPGs. And while the stakeholders aspire for an early solution, the state government, owing to its inability to enforce the law of the land has chosen to reverse the clock and adopt the route of compromise in the garb of facilitation, it added.
