Lemwang Chuhwanglim
The newness of Nagaland is felt every day. For decademany old and young Nagas remained swept away by trend of competition in numerous illegal activities both in Government and Non-Governmental sectors without anticipating what future would bring upon the entire Nagas. When foreigners say ‘Nagaland is the corrupt society’ Nagas need not justify that every society is corrupted. The density of brokenNaga society has reached the peak of explosion where plague would not spare both poor and rich. The state is known as the highest primary school dropout, the least growing state, numbers of incomplete common buildings and projects, state of insufficient money with luxurious wedding and festivals. However, prior to any invincible plague that seemingly appears, young Nagassubstantially introducing new ways of administrating the society through transforming the innovative mindsetinto praxis to rectify the wrong going society under the desolation leadership of many political and church leaders. Despite the complexity of decision making to become leader in the current Naga society, there are young people ardently emerging with leadership responsibilities in tangible endeavors to replace the former leaders. To imagine the society leading by young people appears ineffable for history making in the globe.
The evolution of politicsfor social transformation in Asia starts from four neighboring countries namely India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Myanmargradually have made impact on many provinces towards prospecting better leadership for social transformation. The Indian National Congress founded in 1885 ruled the country for almost three decades and remained as the forefront of the nationalist party. The last ruling party under the president-ship of Sonia Gandhi which controlled 70 % of seats in parliament ((Encyclopedia. 2008) was superseded by Modi who sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India on 26th May 2014. Regardless of good or bad change of political leadership in India, this seemingly appeared a threshold for the Asian political transformation. This political transformation became epidemic in the few Asian countries based on the deterioration leadership of former political party measured by the observation of the common people. Common people observation repercussions in Indonesia by choosing ‘man of the people’ for the poor performance of the former President Mr. SusiloBambangYudhoyono who remained stagnant during his 10 years of president-ship from 2004 until October2014. His political leadership failed to provide the necessity of the common people,needs and expectations. Subsequently, Jokowi, the new president of the country who is known as the ‘man of the people’ emanated to new political shift and sworn his presidentship on 20th October, 2014 (BBC NEWS. 2014) which today majority Indonesians regardless of differences in religion and ethnicity feel the true democracy in the country in many aspects. The chain of this political transformation spread over Sri Lanka when common people voted Mr. MaithripalaSirisena with 70% vote on 8th January 2015 which is considered as the birth of new democratic alliance and considered as the tightest ever presidential election in the post-independent history of Sri Lanka (Fernando. 2015). The political transformation in Asia did not stop here; it further travelled to one of the most military rule nation namely Myanmar. With approximately of 55 million inhabitants the country became democratic nation from the British rule in 1948. Subsequently the nation was ruled by military which brought darker world since 1962 until November 2015 (Gaens. 2013). November 10, 2015 election has marked a key step in the national transition from the decade military rule. Long waited citizens of Myanmar have obtaineda space for sufficient breathof democracy today under the leadership of the lone women Aung San SuuKyi. This wave of political transition in the Asian countries has motivated provinces like Bihar in India where people select opposition leader. In Nagaland a recent launched of the AamAadmi Party on 30th January 2016 led by young people who are known as committed to change the Naga political system to evict corruption gradually makes people today feel the political transition in the Naga society to bring new Nagaland. There is speculative anticipation that 2018 state election would appear as the toughest battle for the existing political leaders. In addition, many young people have opted for self-reliance profession for sustainable subsistence which emerges as adversaries to what common people historical insularity of proportioning government job as the only security of life. The amount of citizens who stand against corruption outnumber day by day on social media and local media. However, there are predominant young Nagas who are still in dilemma to choose between corruption and anti-corruption. If the power of few Nagas who stand against corruption engenders day by day, the impact upon the predominant dilemma young may take place soon; if not it will remain unprecedentedculture in the Naga society.
The implicit weakness of the Nagas in general is failure to recognize many effective people who eminently work in respective village and town for social transformation in sustainable development, self-reliance, innovative entrepreneurs, and skill development and so on. Nagas have the trend to display or give more important to exhibit social evil phenomena faster andramification as common illnesswhich pays more attention on bad news than good news. Changing mind to change society has become a contagious slogan every day that proliferates more negative focused. Society does not change with change of mind exclusively; by in large social change constitutes with encompasses of change of mind that rationalizes, soul resonances, heart that feels, eyes that see, ears which listen and mouth that instills words. If change takes place in the integration of the entire human body, the ramification of it reveals in praxis of hands and legs that implement every act for social change.Similarly, integrity among the Naga young people is inevitably a current calling for social transformation. Most significantly, young people shouldrelinquish every day complains culture in social media about corruption. Instead rationalize individually or in group to focus more on obliterating the culture of complains. Subsequently, elevate to visualize action oriented activities to challenge any corruption prevailing in the society and share more about achievers than failures.
