Dimapur, Nov 4 (MExN): The NSCM-IM has questioned the NSCN-K’s censure of students from the Naga-dominated Hill districts being allowed to appear examinations under the Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) and has termed the opposition as “irrationality and anti-nationalism”. “The very recent disapproval by the Khaplangs against Naga students hailing from the four hills districts of the present Indian Manipur state from being allowed to appear under the NBSE also uncovers their irrationality and anti-nationalism. These Naga students who are being imposed to study the Meitei scripts invented in recent times, syllabi of the Meitei history wherein Naga people’s history is excluded poses a threat to the Naga identity” stated a MIP/GPRN release. It stated that initiatives by Naga student bodies and civil societies to ‘rescue’ the Naga students who are ‘caught in the web of the unresolved school affiliation imbroglio and their educational careers imperiled’ are to be reflected upon by all Nagas humanly in the spirit of brotherhood.
“Do not our children pursue their education at Shillong, Delhi, Guwahati etc? Do they deprive the students’ community there in their respective institutes of their privileges by studying with them? Or instances of availing scholarships which are borne by the state’s exchequer but according to the deserving students listed by the state and sent to the Human Resource Development Department Delhi for allocation?” the NSCN-IM queried. It maintained that the seats or other privileges extended by the Indian government to their states ‘will continue to come from them’ “but it is not us who will be depriving each other of any privileges or facilities”. The NSCN-IM asserted that the incitement of negative perception to spread distrust and division by adverse forces should not sway “our rationality and divert our attention from serious political issues at hand”. “The Naga people should not succumb to this divisive and ‘deviational elements’ aimed at hijacking our aspired national cause to live as an integrated people securing our unique identity from external invasions” the releases stated.
