Dimapur, June 21 (MExN): The Working Committee, Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) has said that a ‘Pan Naga Hoho (PNH)’ without integration would not be acceptable to Naga tribes.
In a press release issued through its Media Cell on Tuesday, the WC, NNPGs termed the NSCN (IM)’s justification and admission that the PNH is at an incubating stage and being concretised, as ‘outrageous,’ while adding that it was “a determined plan for a backdoor entry into Nagaland in the near future.”
The WC, NNPGs maintained that the Government of India (GoI) had “officially declared multiple times that the present boundary of Manipur state will not be disturbed; which is why the GoI and WC, NNPGs negotiated and agreed, in principle, to give appropriate and adequate political space to Nagas of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam to practice, promote and strengthen Naga traditions, culture, custom and distinct identity in the divided Naga homeland, through honourable political and administrative arrangements without disturbing state boundaries.”
However, it claimed that the Naga tribes, particularly of Nagaland state, “have been taken for a ride,” as few NSCN (IM) leaders have been demanding that the GoI “allow them begin an authoritarian regime in Nagaland.”
Stating that the Naga pioneers, in 1929, submitted a memorandum to British Statutory Commission “as they clearly sensed and foresaw alien destructive political philosophy taking shape in Naga homeland,” the WC, NNPGs went on to state that today, “the communist-socialist inspired philosophy from within Nagas, in the form of obnoxious PNH powered by a despicable code called Yehzabo is being marketed in Nagaland.”
“This political philosophy exists only in the imagination of few Southern Naga IM leaders” and “will have no buyers in Nagaland,” it said.
“There are clear demarcated mountains, valleys and streams declaring indigenous domain for each Naga tribes, be it in Nagaland or Naga areas in other states. Nagaland practices inherent robust democratic ethos in villages, prudent community structure and above all, strong physical, emotional and spiritual connection with the land and its resources,” it said.
It further stated that the NSCN (IM) “have forgotten few basic natural laws of Nagaland in their PNH and Yehzabo plan which even GoI, during negotiations, honoured and acknowledged.”
According to the WC, NNPGs, “there are certain inalienable rights of Naga tribes in Nagaland which the Southern Naga leaders within IM must stay away from. Nagaland or for that matter Naga areas in other states have their very own indigenous Naga tribe inhabiting particular area with full community ownership. No part of it can be ceded to another tribe or can be declared a common property of all Nagas now or in the future.”
The diversity among Nagas of different states, the ancestral lands and rights cannot be annulled and erased inside a small room in Hebron camp or Delhi through PNH or Yehzabo, it asserted, adding that “Even GoI do not dare intrude and infringe on inalienable elements because they know the thread that bind Indians and Nagas will be snapped.”
“Similarly, the ties that bind Nagas of Nagaland and Nagas of Manipur will be snapped when propaganda on sentimentalism, philosophical narrative and romanticization of issue are applied to steamroll and subvert the extraordinary privacy of each Naga tribe, their possessions above and below their feet. History and identity whether between Indians and Nagas or among Nagas cannot be changed or challenged,” it added.
