Minister urged to learn Naga history
DIMAPUR, JUNE 27 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) has termed it as “a matter of discomfort to follow the speech of Merentoshi Jamir, Minister for Youth Resources and Sports” as reported in a leading local daily on 23th June 2013 on the occasion of NCC Special Integration Camp at Patkai Christian College, Dimapur.
According to a press note issued by the MIP, the Minister had “naively appealed to the students to spread the message that Nagaland is an integral part of India” and thereby “forgetting that Nagas have its history and its customary law and therefore we have our own political identity”.
It was also pointed out that during the Indo-Naga Political talks the government of India had also come to acknowledge the history of the Nagas as per Amsterdam Joint Communiqué on July 11, 2002.
“In a vulnerable position and novice in politics as the youngest minister he should have stayed away from touching sensitive political issue”, stated the MIP note while adding that the “occasion and his position as minister must have carried him away but history is a living testimony that Nagaland was never an integral part of India”.
The MIP note also stated that “the ongoing Indo-Naga Political talks is getting closer to declare Naga political solution but NSCN negotiating team under Isak Chishi Swu & Th. Muivah as the Chief Negotiator have never conformist the sovereignty of the Naga people”. Therefore, it stated that the Minister “should also at least learn the Naga History before attempting to comment on Naga political issue.”
