DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 21 (MExN): The Working Committee (WC), Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) today endorsed the decision of the NSCN (R) to expel its Vice-President Akato Chophy from the fold for “anti-party activities.”
A press release from the media cell, WC, NNPGs said that “while betraying the NSCN (R) he has also deeply wounded and offended Naga tribes and civil societies at this juncture.” “A person who had defected on multiple occasions from one to another organisation for his personal glory and monetary gain should not talk about constitution of NSCN,” it added.
The WC expressed regret that Akato Chophy has “chosen to defy the undertaking signed on 22/10/21. The earnest mediations and reasoning by the WC Convener and Co-Conveners to reconcile and bury the differences within NSCN (R), which he agreed and signed in black and white, has been discarded.”
It further observed that the “mentality to float a new group at this hour is exasperating, a shame to society and a disgrace to his own community.” “No sensible human being, let alone leader, could ever be expected to resort to such irrational move particularly at this crucial juncture where ‘early political solution’ is reverberating across all Naga churches and homes,” it added.
The WC further termed the justification of forming the new group as defending the NSCN constitution “as a self-mockery since he himself is responsible for infringing upon every provision of the NSCN constitution to elevate himself and seize more power and money.” “The act of insubordination of NSCN (R)’s formation and willful defiance of the collective undertaking has led to his expulsion from both the NSCN (R) and W/C of NNPGs,” the committee stated.
Further, the WC stated that the new group’s assertion of splitting from the NSCN (R) and retaining of the same nomenclature “holds no basis since he is already ex-communicated from the NSCN (R) and deviated from NNPGs principle.”
“He possesses no moral authority to represent the Naga political issue in any capacity. Indeed it is a huge embarrassment before the Nagas and the world that an individual without an iota of integrity attempted to undermine the sanctity of the impending solution to the Indo-Naga political issue,” it added.
The WC said that the removal of the NSCN (R) Vice President from the WC platform “shall have no negative bearing on the stature of the NNPGs or the concluded formal talks.”
“It must also be understood that the issue within the NSCN (R) is not an ideological issue but rather an unconstitutional, unacceptable and unethical trait of Akato to also remain a finance minister, tax collector, treasury officer and a cashier. This was the crux of the problem. It has nothing to do with the ongoing political process with the GOI,” the WC, NNPGs claimed.
It meanwhile urged those national workers stationed at Hoito village with the new group, “unaware of the ground reality,” to “return to their legitimate NSCN (R) fold headed by President Y Wangtin Naga and Ato Kilonser P Tikhak.”
“This is a Naga issue and not of the clan, personal affinity or family connections. This is time to contribute to nation building and not idol worshipping. The dissident elements with mala fide intention will have no role to play in the Naga polity and every right thinking Naga citizens including the business community must desist from extending any form of sympathy, material, financial supports or taxation,” the WC stated.
It asserted that the NNPGs would “resolutely uphold the decision of the 14 Naga tribal Hohos and other frontal Naga organisation to not entertain formation of any new political faction.” The WC, NNPGs, it added “will collectively strive towards finding an honourable and acceptable political solution without further delay.”
