DIMAPUR, JUNE 4 (MExN): The NNPGs Working Committee (WC) has decided to suspend all negotiations unless the Government of India “comes clean on the question of haphazard actions of its agencies.” This comes following a raid conducted on June 2 at the residence of the committee’s Co-Convener and General Secretary, NNC (Parent Body), V Nagi.
The next round of negotiations was tentatively scheduled for June 7. A press note from the media cell of the NNPGs Working Committee said that this incident “raises the pertinent question why Nagas cannot trust the GoI.” Following the raid, it was informed that the committee held an emergency meeting wherein it condemned the “policy and attitude of the Government of India to use the Assam Rifles to raid even the residences of Naga leaders negotiating at New Delhi.” “The action of the men in uniform crossed all moral and ethical values and it comes as a deep shock,” it added.
The NNPG leaders concluded that it “serves no purpose to continue the dialogue since all the progress in the Indo-Naga political Negotiations between the two entities appears to be a trivial matter on the part of GoI.”
“The latest action of the Assam Rifles comes across as an insult to all section of Nagas who have come to trust the ongoing political talks between GoI and NNPGs,” it said.
The NNPGs Working Committee meanwhile called upon the Naga people to be “vigilant in the present time because the Working Committee believes that a cordial atmosphere extended in New Delhi must be ensured equally at Kohima or in any part of Naga Homeland.” “Uniformed men going berserk in Nagaland while talks are on in Delhi shows a betrayal of trust,” it stated.
