Nagaland Guv meets S C Jamir: What's cooking?
One can never achieve 100 percent endorsement,
New Delhi
Will S C Jamir get back his Midas touch?
Elections come and go. Poll pundits either rejoice their prediction or lament for being grossly wrong. Winners laugh and those taught lessons by faceless Indian voters look for cover.
A few enlightened leaders can even come back to 'biological' reality.
But governance is constant. Hence predicament about Naga talks and should there be any peace pact "at the earliest" also remains a constant phenomenon.
Nagaland Governor La Ganesan, who was in Delhi to attend the historic third-time swearing in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his council of ministers, returned to Kohima on Tuesday evening.
Midway in Dimapur, the Governor had a brief meeting with former Chief Minister and veteran leader S C Jamir.
Of course, none can speculate what they spoke. The afternoon meeting over fruits and fresh juice could be a mere courtesy call.
One thing one can say at least both understand the implications of constitutional issues and what happens after a landmark electoral verdict.
That veteran Jamir is an old hand in reading pulse of politics is a known phenomenon. But a few interactions one had with Governor Ganesan gave a clear impression that the senior leader from Tamil Nadu and a former Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh also has a good understanding of ground zero vis-a-vis politics.
In Nagaland, everyone also knows that S C Jamir is known to be a strong advocate of an early Solution under the Constitution of India. He is of the view that the Modi Govt should have signed an agreement with NNPGs.
One can never achieve 100 percent endorsement, he had said on numerous occasions.
On December 4, 2023, Jamir had written to the Prime Minister: "I will only be repeating myself that before your second term ends -- in fact in next two months -you can take a final call to bring an end to the Naga issue. As someone who joined Naga politics decades back and as someone who has seen so many ups and downs; I am assuring you, in all my sincerity, your name will be recorded in golden letters in Naga history if a peace pact is inked now".
But in the absence of any Solution pact with Nagas and in view of the mess in Manipur, the BJP and its allies NDPP and NPF suffered unexpected electoral setbacks in these two adjoining states in the Lok Sabha polls.
Taking the argument forward, one could refer to the Modi government’s "success" in the North East particularly bringing the armed conflicts to peaceful resolution especially in Assam and Tripura.
Since 2014 particularly since 2019 a number of peace agreements have been signed.
One can hope that Modi 3.0 will also find a political Solution to the long standing Naga issue.
All stakeholders including Naga people too perhaps realise it well now that it’s now or never
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