KOHIMA, FEBRUARY 2 (MExN): President of the Naga National Council (NNC), Adinno Phizo today stated that the 1951 Naga Plebiscite mandate “is for a sovereign independent whole Nagaland.”
“In keeping and upholding our irrefutable national right and mandate, the Naga National Council and the Federal Government of Nagaland have been defending the sovereign right of the Nagas all these years; and shall continue to defend till India withdraws from our land;” the NNC President said on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the NNC’s formation.
She thanked God for “inspiring and blessing our pioneer Naga national leaders in forming the Naga National Council (NNC) on February 2, 1946 at Wokha.” This day is important because it was on this day that the Naga leaders of the day decided to gather the Naga families and form a distinct nation in keeping with the design of the creator of all nations, Phizo stated.
She reminded that after the formation of the NNC “our leaders reached out to the different communities of the Nagas.” On the other hand, carried out numerous goodwill missions to Assam and to the leaders of emerging India with the purpose to appraise them of Naga National stand to stay an independent nation, the NNC President said.
“In keeping with the unique position of the Nagas, NNC formally declared our age-old independence to the world on August 14, 1947.
Following Naga independence declaration, a voluntary plebiscite was conducted by NNC in 1951 and received an overwhelming mandate of 99.9% to stay as an independent nation,” she stated.
With the independence declaration and plebiscite mandate, the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) was formed on March 22, 1956. “The Naga National Council named the Naga country as Nagaland in the 1940s comprising all the Naga inhabited territories. However, India in trying to conceal its aggression and atrocities on Nagaland and its people, carved out a portion of Nagaland and set up a puppet state Nagaland with some gullible Nagas in 1963, and conducting its sham elections periodically,” the NNC President stated.
She reminded that “on this outrageous matter, AZ Phizo, the former NNC President out rightly rejected the so called 16 Point Agreement in 1960.”
