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The other day Congress leader K Therie gave a major boost to the peace process and pushed for an early Solution pact when he said, the Government of India should immediately honour the pact signed with NNPG in 2017.
He did that when a few Central Congress leaders and well known Rahul Gandhi admirers were in Nagaland. Not many Congressmen or women can show such a tendency (read guts) to virtually endorse a pact created during the stint of PM Modi.
Has the ball yet again in PM Narendra Modi's court ?
Old problem, Old Mistakes; Modi's 'New India' - 'New Nagaland'
Season is yet again 'optimism'
New Delhi
The 'New India' is of course a new slogan pushed by the maestro of the Moditva phenomenon - Narendra Modi himself. Some years back in Gandhinagar Raj Bhavan, he had a 'friend' in S Chubatoshi Jamir. This Naga veteran had used the slogan 'New Nagaland' in the 1980s and even die-hard regionalist Late Huska Sumi had flayed Jamir for coining such a slogan.
The regionalist from Pughoboto believed that was indoctrination of 'Congress culture'.
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This scribe is no great admirer of the so-called 'Congress culture'. Sycophancy and dynastic elements always left me antagonised. But the commitment to 'nationalism' could not be ever held in doubt. Take the likes of Hokishe Sema and Jamir (now 92 himself), they always were true protagonists of nationalism. Late Shikiho Sema, a former MP and state Congress chief, had even named his son Bharato. Jamir sustained bullet injuries for 'India' only !
Should we in 2023, add another name here - Kewekhape Therie? A product of S C Jamir 'founded' school of talents of 1993, the incumbent Congress president has come a long way. His love for 'political nationalism' could be a political compulsion today; but that he followed his instinct when he parted ways from 'regionalists' Neiphiu Rio (then a neo player) and Shurhozelie is a fact of life.
To be in the Congress has not helped him much careerwise, he being from a so-called regional Tenyimia bastion. But he still remains a Congressman. So my admiration for the man even as he knows my hardcore reservation for 'dynastic politics'.
The other day Therie gave a major boost to the peace process and pushed for an early Solution pact when he said, the Government of India should immediately honour the pact signed with NNPG in 2017. He did that when a few Central Congress leaders and well known Rahul Gandhi admirers were in Nagaland.
Not many Congressmen or women can show such a tendency (read guts) to virtually endorse a pact created during the stint of PM Modi. We are not suggesting that K Therie is more important than some of his 'friends' in Kohima. But it is a fact that things have moved coincidentally on Jan 14 (2023) when the NNPG and NSCN-IM stalwarts Q Tuccu and N Kitovi Zhimomi decided to issue another statement.
They need not thank Therie for that; some of us lesser mortals can do that actually.
But the Saturday afternoon development is certainly a vital step forward. The spirit of the new joint statement and the wordings ought to be appreciated. The joint statement said that, the NNPG and the NSCN declared "unconditional commitment to collaborate on the basis of our respective agreements (Framework Agreement of 2015 and the Agreed Position of 2017) for the resolution of the Naga historical and political rights with Govt of India".
Both Tuccu and Kitovi need to be complimented; and also FNR and its leader Wati Aier. Therie's endorsement of the Agreed Position has definitely helped the BJP-led dispensation in Delhi.
Intelligence sources both in Kohima and elsewhere suggest the contentious issues of Flag and separate Constitution did not figure at Saturday's talks. For some time we have been following the FNR initiated meetings and today's meeting was thus a much better and fruitful exercise than the earlier Mishti Doi episode in Kolkata.
But the good work should sustain.
In the summer of 1995, eminent columnist Kuldip Nayar once lamented in a Nagaland newspaper stating that, "The pre-occupied New Delhi has neither time nor inclination to try anything different".
This was the Rao government and the Congress party. This is an 'old diagnosis' of the old problem.
But in circa 2023, it's 'New India'. The chief movers and shakers are the duo from Gujarat - PM Modi and powerful Home Minister Amit Shah. Since 2014, admittedly various 'new and different games' have been tried.
Even Shah's Jan 6th visit was more than 'just a VIP visit'. Jamir knows his friends from Gujarat know how to deliver. People are busy in Guwahati as well.
Hindu voters in the mainstream know they did deliver on Kashmir and Ram Temple.
Let Therie continue in Congress. But let the rest of us be optimists at this hour.
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Is this a vital step towards Solution pact ? NSCN-IM & NNPG leaders ink joint statement
In a significant development, NSCN-IM & NNPG leaders on Saturday, Jan 14, 2023, inked a joint statement today seeking to open a new vista in mutual ties and how to "collaborate" for resolution of the Naga "historical and political rights with Govt of India".
Is this a a vital step towards Solution pact ?
The joint statement also said that, "...the NNPG and the NSCN on this day declare our unconditional commitment to collaborate on the basis of our respective agreements (Framework Agreement of 2015 and the Agreed Position of 2017) with immediate effect, for the resolution of the Naga "historical and political rights with Govt of India". The signatories were Q Tuccu, chairman of NSCN-IM and N Kitovi Zhimomi, convener NNPG.
Now, hopefully 'hurdles' could be easily removed. It is understood that Union Home Ministry had earlier this month given a sort of 'deadline' to all interested parties and elected government in Nagaland to take necessary steps to help resolve the oldest insurgency issue in the northeast.
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