There is a timely booster to the Peace process in Nagaland.
Doubts may still persist -- on the role of the Nagaland state Govt.
Onus now on Govt of India to prepare a 'refreshed road map'
"People are fed up.... of Status quo"
Circa 2025 - message from New Delhi is explicitly clear once again - both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are "determined" to bring an early Solution to the vexed Naga issue.
Lately a series of meetings have been held between the Government of India special representative Advisor (north east) A K Mishra and Naga groups.
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| Blogger with Angami Nagas during Hornbill Fest |
At least two NNPG leader N Kitovi Zhimomi and Alezo Venuh have welcomed the "refreshed attempts".
Isak Sumi of NSCN/GPRN (K) told media persons in Dimapur that coordinated efforts were currently underway to formulate the final plan for a comprehensive and inclusive solution to the Naga issue.
"It is good that New Delhi deputed its emissaries once again for refresh attempts. In Nagaland, we in the NNPG are hundred per cent ready for Solution. People are more than 100 per cent for it. Anyone group or individual seen as objecting to a respectable Solution at this stage will be isolated automatically," Kitovi told this blogger.
Alezo Venuh may not be any longer in Kitovi's group. But he too has made it clear that "fresh attempts are welcome".
Onus now on Govt of India to prepare a 'refreshed road map', he said adding, "I am all for it. But the Govt of India will have to do the needful to take it to the next crucial stage".
Sources say A K Mishra and another senior official Rajesh Kambhle from Delhi also met NSCN-IM leaders including deputy Ato Kilonser V S Atem.
Earlier, the NSCN-IM had insisted about due importance to be given to the Framework Agreement.
But as of now the mandarins in Delhi want a Common Draft incorporating salient features from the Agreed Position inked in 2017 between New Delhi and NNPG and also from the Agreed Position.
The new roadmap underlined by both Kitovi and Alezo essentially want to deal with the Common Draft.
That would mean due importance to both the Agreed Position and the Framework Agreement, says Alezo. "Basically, my point is all stake holders should be part of that and I find the Govt of India also agrees to our views," says Alezo.
"I got a feeling New Delhi has conveyed that to all concerned. And this is a positive development," he says.
The NNPG leaders have been maintaining that a Common Draft is acceptable since 2019-20 when the then interlocutor and Governor R N Ravi had announced even on the floor of the Assembly that parleys between Govt of India and Naga militant groups have been completed.
However, sources say there lies some 'secrecy' in the Framework charter of demands as in public space what has come out is only one page statement signed on Aug 3, 2015.
The twin demands for Flag and Constitution raised after Oct 2019 were just not acceptable to the Govt of India.
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| Kitovi - 'wants to play well-timed shots' |
Answering questions, Kitovi said lot of things have changed since 1960s and 1970s. "Previously there were accords and agreements and Naga leaders and freedom fighters were not involved. Today in these series of negotiations all stake holders are engaged.
"So, my point always is today, who will oppose Solution?"
To another question he said, "So anyone who is opposed to Solution is opposed to peace... so this is what I told the Govt of India delegation those opposing peace can go back to jungles.
.....They must go out instead of living with public under the shadow of ceasefire trying to dominate the people on all fronts. So better in such case, they abrogate the ceasefire.
People of Nagaland are tired and fed up of fighting without any Peace and Development".
Apparently at the meeting with one of the groups, the central team led by Mishra was told that the 'role of the state government' should also be clarified.
It is understood from New Delhi's point of view (even in the past) -- as far as Naga talks are concerned, it is strictly between the Govt of India and Naga groups.
And the talks have been completed.
That would essentially mean the centre may not be keen to go back on negotiations yet again to take the state government into confidence as it is being made out.
The state government is technically part of Govt of India establishment and any agreement inked or policy decision taken by New Delhi has to be accepted by the government apparatus in Kohima.
To a question Alezo Venuh also said, "People generally feel the Naga people had enough of Ceasefire.
Today anybody opposing Solution after 28 years of talks will stand isolated on their own. People are just not happy with the present chaos".
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| Alezo Venuh |
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Execution plan for solution underway, says Isak:
NSCN/GPRN (K) leader Isak Sumi told media persons in Dimaur that coordinated efforts were on.
On the divisions among various Naga groups, Isak admitted that the journey presently has been hindered by blame games and group-centric agendas.
“For too long, we Nagas have been engaged in mudslinging– justifying our own positions while imposing the interests of particular groups over the larger Naga interest,” he lamented.
“We cannot justify on any front for all the error that has been committed,” he added.
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