Senapati, June 17 (MExN): The United Naga Council (UNC) today expressed shock to came across a “irresponsible utterance” by Minister and Nagaland BJP President, Temjen Imna Along during a recent interview with a news channel on June 10.
The Minister, according to the Council, reportedly said in the interview that, “Any solution that would come should be under the constitution of India and it should be under Indian union. So anything that is good for the Naga people under the constitution of India should pursued and done it."
At this threshold of the ongoing Indo-Naga peace process, it highly unfortunate and too early from a young politician trying to make a political fortune out of the Naga political issue, the UNC said in a statement issued by its Publicity Wing.
It further charged the Minister of “tuning in line of his Delhi Masters” at the expense of Naga people's struggle for past more than 70 years and expressed hope that the Minister would “mend his ways as he has a long way to go.”
Meanwhile, the UNC pointed out that the “Government of India and the Naga people had signed 3 (three) failed agreements in the past,” namely:- (i) The 9 Point Agreement(Sir Akbar-Hydari) signed, on June 26-28, 1947, (ii) The 16th Point Agreement signed on July 26, 1960 and (iii) The Shillong Accord signed on November 11, 1975.
Having failed to bring the desired political aspirations of the Naga people, violent armed confrontations resumed till the signing of the 2nd Cease-Fire Agreement in 1997 between the Government of India (GoI) and the NSCN on 3 (three) conditions, it said.
It further noted the Naga Movement has associated with the great Indian leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jaya Prakash Narayan, and subsequent Prime Ministers since Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
The historic Indo-Naga Framework Agreement signed on August 3, 2015 with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence was aimed to carrying the peace talks towards finding an early inclusive honourable and acceptable political settlement, it added.
As such, the UNC contended that making such statement was highly unfortunate when the ongoing Indo-Naga peace process is in such a threshold.
