Gen Niki Sumi (Retd)
President, NSCN/GPRN (Niki Led)
Greetings in the name of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ on this glorious day of the celebration of Republic Day. As we celebrate 45th Republic Day, our Nation pays solemn regards and Salute to martyrs and patriots for selflessly defending our Nation.
Today, we celebrate Republic Day with mixed emotions as we are proud at the thought that Nagas have kept the flame of our political aspirations burning and yet at the same time saddened about the fragmentation of our Naga society at every levels; with unity being sparsely spread and rare in the fabric of today's Naga society.
Despite the seemingly unsurmountable odds staked upon Naga's political destiny, we have been defending and struggling for decades to shrug off the foreign colonial yoke yet it has always stayed out of our reach mainly due to our disunity at crucial .junctures in our political journey.
In today's Naga society the word “Unity” is one of the most widely abused word. Most Nagas are bored, annoyed, disappointed or at the very least indifferent to the mention of unity but there is no other substitute to achieve our political aspirations as the maxim goes “United we stand, Divided we fall”. Agree or disagree but there is no other way of achieving our political objectives as a nation without unity.
On the issue of Naga ancestral lands, NSCN/GPRN is clear that any action of arbitrarily and unilaterally fencing any Naga inhabited areas is unacceptable.
NSCN/GPRN steadfastly stands for Unity of Naga Political Groups along with the entire Naga populace to work towards achieving our historical and political rights.
Kuknalim.
.JPG)
