GoI will provide only single solution to Naga political issue: Dy CM Patton

January 5, 2025 5 Views No Comment

Urges NPGs to unite for a permanent solution

Our Correspondent
Kohima | January 5

Nagaland’s Deputy Chief Minister Y. Patton today called upon all the Naga Political Groups to come together and unite for connected efforts to bring about a permanent Naga political solution “if you are genuinely sacrificing for the good cause of the Naga people.”

He asserted that Government of India under the ‘dynamic and visionary’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi “is ready to give us solution if only our Naga factions are united.”

“The Government of India is willing to give us only one solution for the entire Naga society and not solutions to every faction,” Patton said while addressing the 175th anniversary of Lhisemia Kethinuokelie 2025 at NBCC Convention Centre, Kohima.
Patton said that he is not against the factions who are genuinely negotiating with the GoI for finding a final solution “but many of the factions are either for extortions or for self interest.”

“Our Naga society both over ground and underground are completely shattered and fragmented,” he said adding that Naga society is now in a crucial juncture and at the crossroad situation.

“We need a strong and cohesive society for the growth and progress of the state and for the posterity, he said.

He informed that the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio have formed opposition less government bringing all 60 MLAs together under one umbrella irrespective of political party affiliations with a view to bring unity among Naga society and also to hammer out a permanent solution to the protracted Naga political issue once and for all.

Our adversaries may level all sorts of allegations over the opposition less government but it was done so with greater objectives for good and not for misrule, Patton noted.

“During the early stage of our political movement, especially during the time of respected late AZ Phizo, there was no factions, no division and the entire Naga society was united. There was no illegal taxation and no extortion. Our Naga freedom fighters commands respect from every Naga citizens because they fought with dedication and with real sense of Naga freedom movement for self determination,” he said.

Patton, however, lamented that “it is sad to see that our political movement is completely broken into pieces with about 28 factions running parallel government today marked with illegal taxations and extortions making the life of our Naga people difficult to venture out for any progressive and sustainable activities.”

With this kind of situation, how can we survive, the Deputy Chief Minister wondered.