Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 29:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he had no plans to hold talks with leaders of Naga insurgent groups during his visit to Bangkok.
The Centre�s interlocutor for the Naga peace process K Padmanabhaiah is holding talks with NSCN (I-M) in Bangkok for the second time since the Manmohan Singh Government took over.
"I have no plans," Singh told reporters on board the special Air India flight to Bangkok when asked if he plans to meet leaders of major insurgent group NSCN (I-M).
Singh later arrived in Bangkok to attend the BIMSTEC Summit.
Accompanied by a senior official from the Intelligence Bureau, Pad-manabhaiah has met NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Swu and general secretary T Muivah.
In January last year, Swu and Muivah had come here and met the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his deputy LK Advani.
The NSCN leaders had also called on AICC president Sonia Gandhi.
During the two-day parleys between Padmanabhaiah and the Naga leaders, issues like extension of the ceasefire between security forces and NSCN (I-M) cadres in Nagaland and another visit to India by Swu and Muivah are expected to be discussed.
NSCN (I-M) has been seeking creation of �Greater Nagaland� comprising Naga-dominated areas in the North-East, a demand that had sparked violent incidents in Manipur two years back.