Dimapur, August 10 (MExN): The State Government and the sixty members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) are not responsible for the delay in settlement of the Naga political problem, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) President Chingwang Konyak asserted in a press statement to the media on August 10.
The State Government and the political parties in Nagaland are not the contending party(s). The contending parties are the Government of India (GoI) and the various groups of Naga national workers, he added in a statement.
Instead, Chingwang pointed out that right from the year 1964, after 1st General election in Nagaland, the political parties “stands have been to work for the solution of the vexed Naga political problem and to bring the contending parties to negotiating table and declared that they would not stand on the way for solution of the problem.”
The parties have also promised in their respective manifesto that “as and when the Agreement is signed for the final solution,” the elected members of the NLA would “pave the way for the implementations of the agreement,” he asserted.
“Therefore, the question of resignation of MLAs without such agreement for final solution does not arise,” he added.
The NDPP President further noted that the creation of Nagaland State on 1st December, 1963 was a clear indication of the GoI’s desire to solve the Naga political problem and to usher in peace and prosperity to Nagaland. Thus, the Naga people were given the power, responsibility and opportunity to govern their own affairs, he said.
Chingwang further narrated how a “responsible and popular Government” was formed by the Nagaland Nationalist Organization (NNO) in January, 1964 and since then the successive State Government of Nagaland has set itself to the task of running responsible Government with firm determination to solve the Naga Political Problem and to bring peace and development to Nagaland.
