Nagas of Nagaland will perhaps do well to stop telling themselves -- “This can never happen".
The cacophony around seemed to drown out daily worries. Is there a better way... which we all are avoiding and worse doing so deliberately ?
The fact of the matter is one has to brace oneself for all scenarios!
This is peculiar stage wherein anything can happen and at the same time nothing can happen.
The Modi Govt already has a track record of doing and undoing a lot many 'unprecedented things' that would have been taboo in a previous era.
On March 20, 2025 - some hopes were generated and a new dawn was expected. Solution was possibly sighted.
This is the 'last opportunity', many thought.
But on March 21, 2025, things come back to the square one. The NSCN-IM is still adamant about Flag and Constitution. Worse, the group now says that the NNPGs was created in 2017 to "counterweight" the NSCN-IM's prized possession the Framework Agreement.
President Q. Tuccu also said that - "India wants to confuse the Nagas through Agreed Position". The big-picture message is - unless Kohima is brought under control, a realistic Solution may be far off.
The fact of the matter also is that if we can draw any conclusions about Mr Powerful, it is obvious that he and his team are taking Govt of India and the BJP central leadership for granted.
There is very little respect for the oath one has taken in the name of the Constitution.
God forbid, Nagaland should not go the Kashmir way !!
Even worse is that the state of Nagaland should walk into that kind of a deep hole in the name of welfarism of people who are otherwise outside the geographic boundary of the 16th state of Indian Union.
Former Speaker Z Lohe said no Naga tribe within the state or outside needs pampering. But those who matter in Kohima presumably think otherwise.
Statehood for Nagaland was a pattern of the 1960s and 1970s -- Arunachal, Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur and even later in Mizoram.
In 2025, the 'Kashmir model' should not be made a new modus operandi.
The traditional conviction that an elected and a Minister or a Chief Minister who was 'sworn in' following Constitutional propriety and norms will do and say something as expected by that office is gone.
Provoking Constitutional authorities and institutions in Delhi had jeopardised the political road-map of Jammu and Kashmir.
It lost statehood - albeit temporarily and the province was bifurcated too.
A fear has drawn that in 2028 - someone could draw a storyline -- the 10 valuable years in Naga history were lost.
The worst fear could be 25-30 years from now, people could turn back and say -- we should not have voted the way we voted first in 2003.
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