Submits memorandum to ‘Governor of Nagaland -cum- Interlocutor’ on Naga Political Talks
Kohima, august 29 (MExN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) today urged the Governor of Nagaland-cum-Interlocutor’ to Naga Peace Talks “to proceed ahead with the process of ending the political negotiations with solution as scheduled.”
“It is time for the Government of India and the Naga negotiators to stay focused and give all importance to the very logical conclusion rather than to those elements, if any, which are anti-talk and anti-solution,” the NTC stated in a memorandum to the new State’s Governor.
The memorandum, released to the media here by NTC President Toniho Yepthomi and General Secretary Nribemi Ngullie, stated that while one may “like to be apprehensive of the post solution scenario even to the extent of backlash… handling the post solution situation, if any, is the collective responsibility of all the stakeholders.”
The Council also expressed confident that after all these decades, the people of Nagaland know well that only political solution can provide the genuine peace, not by status quo. "The expected solution is not going to confuse or surprise anyone.”
The people have been yearning for practical peace as the people failed to enjoy it under the pseudo peace, it noted.
Meanwhile, “heartily” welcoming the new governor to Nagaland, the NTC maintained that the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had taken the right decision in placing him at the new position at the crucial juncture, and called it ‘very’ assuring.
Assigning the dual responsibilities – governorship as well as the continuation as the Interlocutor – is a “precursor to the determination” of the Government of India (GoI) to bring the political “negotiations to its logical end as committed as to our belief,” it further conveyed.
It also lauded the governor for “tackling” many uncertainties so far with perseverance, and thereby managing to “nurture the negotiations to the present status.”
In this context, the NTC implored the governor “to ensure that the existing tempo be never hampered by any let up.”
Using metaphor, the NTC, meanwhile likened the political negotiations to “conceiving of a child by a mother.”
“The natural end result of the conception has no two options except the delivery of the child,” it opined adding that, in any event of obstructing the “delivery on time, not one but two human beings will perish.”’
To abort is inhuman and it will be very costly and to save the lives of the mother and the child, all options have to be “used to help the pregnant mother to deliver her baby on time,” it said. “The same is the case of the ongoing political negotiations which process should be allowed to conclude with suitable solution in order to let the Nagas have life and enjoy it too as we deserve,” the NTC added in the memorandum.
Additionally, it averred that as childbirth is associated with “labor pain,” similarly, the expected political solution out of the negotiations “may have to pass through hassles.”
One major reason, the NTC argued, are those “who may like to directly or indirectly obstruct” to maintain the status quo - the existing social and political mess – “so that they continue to fish out of the troubled waters.”
“Yet, the NTC is confident that such anti-people element, if any, is neither mandated nor never represents the people nor commands the common desire of the people. Whoever tries to show as anti-solution is nobody but mere busybody,” it added.
The council his emboldened, the NTC told the governor in the memorandum, to share the thoughts in view of “your public announcement that the ongoing political negotiations are to be concluded in a solution within the time frame as directed by the Prime Minister of India. ”
