Nothing wrong in expressing my opinion about Naga political issue:Imkong Imchen

November 8, 2023 39 Views No Comment

Our Correspondent
Kohima | November 8

MLA and Nagaland Advisor for Information & Public Relations And Soil & Water Conservation, Imkong L Imchen today said that the Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of India (GoI) and the NSCN-IM was entered in 1997 later on political talks between this two entity started.

In 2015, the Framework Agreement between the Government of India and the NSCN IM was signed to the delight of the Naga People.

“Now after signing the Framework Agreement, it is now about 8 years and yet no satisfactory message is coming out to the Naga People as a whole till-date,” he said while addressing a press conference in his office chamber in Kohima.

“The people of Nagaland are demanding that the Naga Political Issue should come to a reasonable conclusion. I as a People’s Representative since 2003 in NLA, I am also alive and concerned about the opinion expressed by the general Naga public. It is felt imperative on my part to reflect the Naga public opinion in the public domain. I feel nothing wrong for openly expressing their opinion through my mouth,” Imchen said in a press rejoinder to NSCN-IM.

“I am fully aware that intellectual and concerned sections as well as the general public of Nagaland are also having the same opinion but restraining themselves out of the fear of gun culture prevailing in the state,” he said.

Imchen also stated that he had shifted political parties from NPF to NDPP to BJP owing to the demand of “my people and therefore I feel nothing wrong in it.”

‘Naga political issue is a common Naga agenda’
Imchen said that the Naga Political Issue is a common Naga agenda based on 1951 Plebiscite under the leadership of A Z Phizo which is officially taken cognizance even by GoI.

“Some of the Naga Tribes may not have taken part in the Naga Plebiscite of 1951 and yet Nagas have struggled together under this Plebiscite slogan,” he added.

Therefore, he said, Nagas are the real stakeholders including the 60 MLAs of Nagaland Legislative Assembly and also the Govt servants along with the Naga Public in general, besides the several Resolutions passed in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly under the leadership of different Chief Ministers.