“When a mistake is committed, to defend it more mistakes are committed”. The silent observation of the Kohima Sümi Students’ Union (KSSU) has failed to materialize, as the union expected the upright wisdom of the otherwise rational and learned Minister Imkong Imchen. Few queries, points and a son to father advice are produced below:
1. Dear Sir, I am very proud of you that as a responsible Minister you were able to fight for more quotas, which indeed is very laudable and commendable by all your subjects including me, but with all your rationality take note that your position belong to the Naga people and not to your own family! Would anyone in the central government give you a family quota in the name of the state?! I doubt even the Prime Minister doesn’t have that right, if you remember exactly what happened to random quotas on petroleum dealership by Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the last NDA government at the centre!
2. Learned Sir, you are a highly educated Minister among your colleagues and the Naga youths are looking up on you as a new dynamic pro youth Minister in the present DAN set up. However, the defense; weakest and illogical of all you have confidently produced reveals how narrow you are. If I am to call you my father, I would kindly advice you to stop bringing so much shame on yourself and take rest as a family man, and not as a responsible statesman.
3. Dear Sir, I envy your son for having such a father willing to risk his own prestige (the highest of all), but I tell you, this is the right time for your son to become wiser and also for you to stop belittling yourself too much. The son who can not fend for himself will never ever be the person that the Nagas would need in the future; he would come back empty headed, and would need your help again to get job through backdoors. He would be risking the life of humanity. Let the good be good and vice versa.
4. The Nagas are faced with so much of these sorts of malpractices and corruption cases mostly hidden. This is actually an opportunity to crush the force of corruption one after the other, so that we can have sensible leaders and servants who with the fear of the Lord will lead the state. The Naga Students Federation (NSF) is following this case, as such, I fervently appeal to our Highest Students’ Body of the state to leave no stone unturned.
5. Education is the foundation of building the youths to face and manage the affairs of the state tomorrow. Therefore; merit can never be compromised for the sake of weak and lame excuses which don’t bear a tag of prestige, but contrary to educational ethics. Niuto Chishi maybe from any Naga Community, but if he deserves it nobody in this democratic world can deny him the right to claim what is his. Our concerned minister will have to withdraw immediately before he destroys the future of the life as precious as his. Thereby, allowing Mr. Niuto Chishi to get the formalities done on time.
In conclusion, it is for all the intellectual Naga readers to pass their personal verdict on my write up; biased or unbiased; ism or not. But my conscience is clear that my union stands for all the Naga youths. Let us all make a difference in this corruption meddled up Nagaland. A leader should not have a myopic vision.
“Keep dirty family politics out of state politics.”
Joshua Sheqi Naga, President
Kohima Sumi Students’ Union
