Dimapur, January 12 (MExN): The new working president of the Naga people’s front (NPF), Manipur unit, says the party is committed to “redeeming the honor and dignity of our people from imminent danger of being smothered by forces inimical to the progress and well-being of the Nagas.” Working President of the NPF’s Manipur unit Sword Vashum said in a message today that the Naga people in Manipur have suffered long and much and it is time for the oppressed to stand and claim what is theirs.
“I fervently believe that the NPF stands committed to redeeming the honour and dignity of our people from imminent danger of being smothered by forces inimical to the progress and well-being of the Nagas,” Vashum said in his message. “Nagas for no fault of ours have all this while suffered beyond description ‘divide and rule’ through manipulation, deceit and treachery.”
The new working president of NPF queried whether ‘we ourselves are responsible for the pain and shame that we have been going through by allowing ourselves to be manipulated and used as stooges.’ “It is long overdue that we stand united, come what may and thwart the evil design of the inimical forces (both within and without) who do not want our progress and do not respect honour and dignity of our people.” According to Vashum, the Nagas in Manipur in particular have all this while suffered humiliation, discrimination, shame and pain ‘just for the reason of wanting to be ourselves.’ “I trust that the NPF stands committed to retrieving and consolidating the position of the Nagas as a united people. In so cherishing our legitimate goal we do not seek confrontation with our neighbors nor do we mean harming them in anyway. History has now reached a point of no return with unmistakable conclusion ‘enough is enough’, and it is now for every self respecting Naga to rise in unison to take the call of saving our people from imposed fragmentation and eventual demise of our history, culture & identity.”
On taking the charge of working president, the executive assured that he accepts the challenge of the responsibility given to him as leader of Manipur state’s youngest political unit. “In so accepting to take the call of this challenge, I fervently believe that NPF is a political party driven by the spirit and ideal of true humanity seeking self expression and fulfillment of our legitimate (constitutionally permissible) democratic right to live together as one people,” Vashum stated. “NPF has now arrived on our political landscape as a common platform for all Nagas to ameliorate with a clarion call, ‘come let us rise together and stand united in saving and protecting with honour and dignity for the posterity,’” he added.
