Newmai News Network
Dimapur | June 26
A high level Naga delegation led by the Naga Hoho has met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi this evening. In the morning the Naga leaders also met central leaders including Intelligence Bureau officials and interlocutor of the NSCN (IM)-Government of India peace talk R.S Pandey, according to a well placed source in Delhi.
The Naga delegation is likely to meet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, the source in New Delhi informed Newmai News Network over phone this evening. The Naga leaders have been pressing the government of India to bring the Indo-Naga settlement within this year itself.
Leaders of the United Naga Council (UNC) are also part of the Naga Hoho delegation currently camping in New Delhi. Meanwhile, patience among ordinary Nagas is fast waning following the prolonged ceasefire and dialogue. In the various seminars organised by Naga Solidarity Group (NSG), Naga intellectuals have been bringing out the issue as to how long the peace talk should be allowed to go on.
In one such discourse in Ukhrul, a well known Naga thinker Abraham Lotha had opined “the Naga political issue is not the monopoly of the undergrounds. They have been given enough time and chances”.
It is worthwhile to note that the Naga apex body, the Naga Hoho had asserted last month that by the end of this year things should be materialised regarding the talks. Fifteen years of dialogue is a long, long period, said the Naga civil body earlier.
