"While Nagaland and Manipur still live under shadows of Militant-politician nexus. Sabotaging all kind of development grants extended by center," runs a tweet from Maj Digvijay Singh Rawat, Kirti Chakra.
The message serves multiple purposes. It leaves a message for Govt of India, it provokes Naga underground factions and especially NSCN-IM, it urges people of Nagaland and Manipur to revisit their life approach and strategies for children and it leaves a powerful message for the political class and especially Nagaland's new and old regionalists.
About 'party with a difference' - we may not have much to say because the ideology and even the political interests of the party was long sacrificed in Nagaland by the efficiency of the likes of Himanta Biswa Sarma, Ram Madhav and Nalin Kohili. There would be many others too.
Similarly we may name players associated with Manipur. The former army officer is anguished by the visit and speeches of hatred propagated by an aging militant leader Thuingaleng Muivah. Having seen things from a closer range; he further states in his posting on Twitter:
"Peace talks are more or less irrelevant as the dream of Nagalim died years ago when Nagas from Nagaland distanced themselves from NSCN’s Tangkhul-centric politics."
There was a sort of larger conspiracy going on and all kinds of players were playing all kinds of game to fool the common people. These remarks from an ex military man or others are not new.
Even Naga leaders have been forewarning the Govt of India not to trust an organisation and leaders who mastered their art of self-seeking guerilla-politics from communist gurus and influencers. The fact of the matter is there nothing works.
Indoctrination and brain-wash business is so much that -- one is taught -- everything about Hindu is bad.
- everything about India is bad.
And the conflicts of 1970s and 1980s was such that it was almost tutored directly and in a veiled manner that everything about Christian ethnics have no meaning.
Thus the conflicts of communists' interests and the interests of American church lobby have come to light even in the 1980s and 1990s and no one seem to read between the lines.
Having said so - I must confess there has been one Naga leader who could diagnose things in their proper perspective. Even as the chief minister S C Jamir (in 1990s) used to talk about propaganda games. Often we used to argue with him and never sought to believe what all he had to say. But what he said has come true.
One can only ponder why a Prime Minister such as Narendra Modi did not trust and respect the matured words of counseling by Jamir. As Governor of Gujarat and as the chief minister of the western state -- Jamir-Modi duo made a good team because though of totally different background both had the political acumen to understand each other's views.
File snap of Phizo
In 2000; it was ironic to see photographs appearing in the media about Muivah being in fetters in Bangkok. He was arrested on January 19, 2000 on the charge of carrying a false South Korean passport after he stepped off Thai Airways flight TG 508 on arrival at Bangkok from Karachi.
He was released on bail but was again held on January 30, 2000 at the Hay Yai airport on possessing another false passport.
His arrest, the underground camp alleged, was after the Indian intelligence Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) became “hyper sensitive”. The detention and the legal case pursued at Ratchadaphisek court had put a question mark on the fate of the peace talks with the Vajpayee government.
Muivah’s parleys with Pakistan and reported meeting with ISI’s Lt Gen Usmani had stunned New Delhi especially after he had been participating in the peace talks since 1997. Moreover, India’s relations with Pakistan had collapsed following the Kargil conflict and hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight in December 1999.
What had particularly irked the government (NDA-I) was that a younger associate who was in-charge of 'arms purchase' from foreign countries accompanied Muivah. But somehow the negotiations were not harmed.
In my book 'The Talking Guns : North East India' (published 2008) I had also noted: "How much Muivah is romanticised could be felt only when during his passport defiance trial in Bangkok, a host of civil liberty activists and journalists from Delhi Nandita Haksar, Justice (Retd)Rajinder Sachchar and Bharat Bhushan, then Executive Editor with ‘The Hindustan Times’ had paid him a visit at the trial room. Bhushan even had serialised his news dispatches eulogising the rebel leader.
No doubt; Muivah had his reasons to thank Ms Nandita Haksar during his Oct 22, 2025 speech.
A question the Govt of India needs to probe whether 'urban Naxals' from mainstream India guided by hatred for Narendra Modi have collaborated with the NSCN-IM during last six months or so.
This need not be just here say.
Maj Digvijay Singh Rawat also notes: ".... His whole life Muivah has been hiding in Myanmar while dealing with China and Pakistan, supplying weapons to Naxals in Chattisgarh".
Ting Tong.
It goes without saying that during his younger days, Muivah along with Gen Thenosilie (of NNC) and others had staged a “Long March” braving through jungles and reached Yunnan Province opening the 'China gate' for making the insurgency in northeast murkier.
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