Dimapur, May 1 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Saturday took strong exception to Minister Tongpang Ozukum’s statement that “Nagas cannot survive alone” which was stated during the recently held Naga Students Federation General Conference on April 30.
Terming it “an insult to Nagaland,” the NPCC said that in political terms, “it is a confession of weakness and expression of inferiority and submission.”
“We have no history that our villages were conquered by any Kingdom. We have lived alone for generations. And we have never depended on anyone,” the NPCC stated.
The Minister’s statement that Nagas cannot survive alone, “whether he means without India or without neighbours, whatever he may have in his mind,” is wrong, it asserted.
In this regard, it termed the Minister’s statement an insult to the people of Nagaland, and particularly the ancestors “to whom we owe all that we have today.”
“If this is the mindset of NDPP, Nagaland has no future with them,” it concluded.
