Dimapur, July 7 (MExN): The working committee of the Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) today ‘accepted the challenge’ of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) to debate on the Naga political issue, and said the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) could moderate the proposed debate. The NPF has requested the NBCC to “sponsor” the debate.
“In view of the oft-repeated claims and charges of the NPCC (I) and the challenge it has thrown for an open debate on the Naga political issue, the NPF working committee have accepted their challenge so as to set the records staring and clarify many misconceptions on the role it has been playing as a facilitator over the decades,” the NPF’s working committee said. The working committee issued a note appended by KG Kenye, member secretary of the committee today.
For the debate, the NPF said a neutral organization would be best to (moderate) the debate. “The NPF feels that a neutral organization like the Nagaland Baptist Church Council would be the most appropriate body to sponsor such a debate hence the working committee requests the NBCC to consider taking up this proposal in the interest of the Naga public,” the party stated.
During a recent meeting, members of the committee reviewed ‘all the Congress’ allegations’ leveled against the NPF “and the regional legacy it has inherited over the decades of the Nagaland statehood vis a vis the Naga political struggle and the tall calms of the NPCC (I) for its achievements down the Naga political history.”
The party said to have thoroughly discussed major political events and circumstances “surrounding the Naga people since the early 50s.” The main topic focused on a document written and compiled by NPF chief Dr. Shurhozelie on the background of the formation of the Naga Peoples convention in the late 50s, the party informed.
The committee explained in one length – “The original plan and purpose of its formation, the creation of the negotiating body and how it declined to meet the underground and deviated from its actual motive and intention and played into the hands of the bureaucrats who completely miscarried the entire plan and without ...
encompassing the whole Nagas went ahead unilaterally to sign the 16-point agreement with the government of India which as become very contentious today.”
According to the committee’s press release, the document threw light on the ‘circumstances leading to the formation of the democratic party in Nagaland in October 1963 by Mr. A Kevichusa and his companions with a commitment to realign the volatile situation and work for a final political settlement of the Indo-Naga issue, “the heir to which is the Naga Peoples’ Front.’
“In view of the oft-repeated claims and charges of the NPCC (I) and the challenge it has thrown for an open debate on the Naga political issue, the NPF working committee have accepted their challenge so as to set the records staring and clarify many misconceptions on the role it has been playing as a facilitator over the decades,” the NPF’s working committee said. The working committee issued a note appended by KG Kenye, member secretary of the committee today.
For the debate, the NPF said a neutral organization would be best to (moderate) the debate. “The NPF feels that a neutral organization like the Nagaland Baptist Church Council would be the most appropriate body to sponsor such a debate hence the working committee requests the NBCC to consider taking up this proposal in the interest of the Naga public,” the party stated.
During a recent meeting, members of the committee reviewed ‘all the Congress’ allegations’ leveled against the NPF “and the regional legacy it has inherited over the decades of the Nagaland statehood vis a vis the Naga political struggle and the tall calms of the NPCC (I) for its achievements down the Naga political history.”
The party said to have thoroughly discussed major political events and circumstances “surrounding the Naga people since the early 50s.” The main topic focused on a document written and compiled by NPF chief Dr. Shurhozelie on the background of the formation of the Naga Peoples convention in the late 50s, the party informed.
The committee explained in one length – “The original plan and purpose of its formation, the creation of the negotiating body and how it declined to meet the underground and deviated from its actual motive and intention and played into the hands of the bureaucrats who completely miscarried the entire plan and without ...
encompassing the whole Nagas went ahead unilaterally to sign the 16-point agreement with the government of India which as become very contentious today.”
According to the committee’s press release, the document threw light on the ‘circumstances leading to the formation of the democratic party in Nagaland in October 1963 by Mr. A Kevichusa and his companions with a commitment to realign the volatile situation and work for a final political settlement of the Indo-Naga issue, “the heir to which is the Naga Peoples’ Front.’
