Members of the Naga Club during the observation programme of the Naga Club 2019 Foundation Day on January 7. (Photo Courtesy/ Naga Club)
Kohima, January 7 (MExN): Naga Club President, Kruorovi Peseyie today asserted that the most important and historic deed of Naga Club is the submission of the first Naga Political Memorandum to the British Statutory Commission led by John Simon M.P on January 10, 1929 which has become the Magna Carta of Nagas.
According to the press release issued by Kuzhovesa Soho, Publicity Cell, Naga Club, addressing the members of the Naga Club during its foundation day observation held at MC, Hall, Red Cross Building Kohima on January 7, Peseyie claimed that some writers of the North East consider the memorandum of 1929 as one of the rarest memorandums and added that even the more civilised and neighbouring people could not imagine then further.
He said, “Nagas were perhaps less civilised than others in those days, but because of their innocence and humbleness God helped them in a wonderful manner.”
Emphasizing the present stand of the Naga Club, Peseyie said, Naga Club shall stand for truthfulness and honesty by making its functions with compassion and benevolence and always stand for what are rights and good. Peseyie further warned that the true histories and records of Naga Club should never be supplanted with individual statement of own imagination without basing on reliable evidences.
Narrating the past histories of the Club Peseyie said, Hisale Angami (Rheichalie Pienyü) became the first Chairman of Naga Club 1918 to 1942, and Krusiehu Belho became the second President from 1942 to 1964. Those Naga leaders did never join Naga Labour Corps who went to France in 1917 stated Peseyie. Stressing on the formation of the Club, he said, Naga Club was founded by some Clerks and Interpreters who were serving in the office of the Deputy Commissioner Naga Hills, Kohima with some Ex-Soldiers, Contractors and Village Elders.
Earlier, the function was chaired by Naga Club General Secretary, KN Mhonthung, Rev. Dr. K. Benry Lotha, Pastor, Kohima Lotha Baptist Church read the Bible passage and invoke God’s blessing. Others who spoke on the occasion include, Club Treasurer Vixepu Swu, Jonas Yanthan, Robert Solo. The function winds up with a mass spoken prayer.
