Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, January 29:
Two things have been dominating the current Nagaland scene�the forthcoming assembly election and the 'NSCNs unification' issue.
The election fever in Nagaland this time has been, to a great extent, diluted by the NSCNs unification issue and which will subsequently have an immense impact in the forthcoming Nagaland Assembly election.
Nagaland goes to poll on March 5 for the 60 assembly constituencies.
With just little more than a month away for the election, the household talks in Nagaland is either the NSCNs unification topic or the assembly election matter.
Given the prevailing situation the mood of the people with regard to the assembly election is yet to pick up to the heat as expected which is otherwise, by this time, the state would have been on the verge of bursting out into the election euphoria as in previous elections.
All had begun with the November 24 Niuland declaration where Azheto (former NSCN-IM home minister) and C.Singson (NSCN-K external minister) led group had announced to form the 'Unification Team of NSCNs'.
The 2008 Nagaland assembly election will be a different one.
The wave of the general public is going to be definitely swayed accordingly, as in what direction the prevailing atmosphere in the NSCNs' tussle blows.
This is, however not to say that the NSCNs will involve in the election.
The Sema tribe based organisations from top to the grass-root level have been in the all-out backing to the Azheto-Singson led 'Unification NSCN' and it will not be a wrong assumption to say that the Niuland declaration of November 24 is another influential factor that had triggered to the series of resignations of ministers, MLAs and 'parliamentary secretaries' from their respective political parties while conditioning and positioning for the forthcoming assembly election.
Citing this 'wind of change' the unfurling development in the NSCNs tussle will also determine the Nagaland assembly election.
The situation in Nagaland particularly in Dimapur is fluid and unpredictable, if one has to take into account the present configuration.