NSCN (I-M) said that the Agreed Position signed by the NNPGs with the government of India is “betrayal to the Naga people’s mandate of the 1929 Simon Commission Memorandum, 1947 Naga Independence Declaration and the 1951 Plebiscite.”
Imna Longchar, TFM Nagaland Correspondent
With the leaders in New Delhi holding talks with different Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) in the recent years, the NSCN (I-M) which is one of the strongest Naga outfit on Friday said that it cannot and would not be part of the NNPGs led solution on the “Naga Political Issue”.
The NSCN (I-M) said that the Agreed Position signed by the NNPGs with the government of India is “betrayal to the Naga people’s mandate of the 1929 Simon Commission Memorandum, 1947 Naga Independence Declaration and the 1951 Plebiscite.” However, the NSCN (I-M) maintained that if the NNPGs are “so keen to go for a Naga solution as per its Agreed Position, we wish them to go ahead and let the Naga people witness what they could achieve for the Naga people.”
“We are never going to surrender our rights so tamely. History will judge and we simply cannot betray the sacrifices of the thousands of martyrs,” the NSCN (IM) said in a statement. It also alleged that Nagas who are working as “Indian mercenaries” are going through sleepless nights to wreck the Naga issue and destroy the Naga national identity which the Nagas have shed blood, tears and sweat for over six decades.
Stating that they have fought single handedly against the “mighty Indian security forces” and also the “misguided Nagas (mercenaries)”, who were given shelter and made to operate from the Indian Army camps, the NSCN (I-M) accused the Indian government of creating a “third force/party” to defend its interests against the rights of the Nagas.
The outfit further asserted that any solution based on collaborators would only pave the way for a “bigger disaster” claiming that forces are working “hand in glove to engineer reedited 16 Points Agreement.”