K. Chishi
Chümoukedima, Dimapur
Is institutionalized leadership doing any good or more harm towards the people? Like our tribal leaders each assumes the role of collective leaderships, each representing the whole of the specific tribe, but the quid pro quo in the favour of the real people's plight has too much questionable and doubtful rhetoric and is unsatisfactory.
Also it is unbecoming for a group of people to have been remarked as the practitioner of pure democracy since ancestry, yet the tribal leaders are not remotely associated with having any actual collective mandate or in practice- organising ethical, accountable and moderated discourse and debates with the people to raise real contention issues confronting with local and global standards of sociopolitical epidemics and disparities; and this way, dive into the heart of the confronted issue by garnering the support of the people. Anyways, this form of institutionalized leadership and the hardly pivotal role they play to bring forward in the stand the peoples trending political aspirations, is becoming more and more so overrated day by day.
I mean, in the latest developments, The Interlocutor has stated that certain tribal organisations has given the green lights for GOI to conclude the Naga Solution with the NNPG groups including NSCN (IM) That they have given their "consent."
So does this means, if by some miracle the two magnanimous (solution wise) entities, i.e. the 7NNPGs and the NSCN (IM), find some common ground to convolute their Frameworks, it by default becomes the new government of the Nagas, and particular of Nagaland? Even if upon a precise analysis it turns out to be more of a socialist-authoritarian (fascist) than a socialist-democracy.
What positive steps is this leading to other than promoting bias and self-defeating and unmotivated attitude.
If this is the adequate amount of role the people expect from their leaders to fight for, then, wow! Count me out of this. I want more, the future needs more before we are consumed and blown into fumes by the looming toxic climate change. If the real people of Nagaland, people like me who have been rendered powerless because apparently "they" said, "We have chronologically matured tribal leaders to lead us,” and I should zip my mouth and thoughts — and this is what our leaders are consenting towards then... I'd rather be alone and keep on complaining for a just, accountable and a realistic future.
