UNC chief draws line between AA and Telengana
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 07, 2013:
The movement for an Alternative Arrangement for the Nagas of Manipur outside the Government of Manipur pending a solution to the Indo-Naga peace talk is quite different from the Telangana Statehood movement and the two issues are not comparable at all, said UNC president L Adani.
Talking to The Sangai Express over telephone, Adani claimed that "the UNC's movement is in pursuit of our own rights and political aspirations and it has no parallel with the Telanga movement.
"Government of India always maintained creation of small States or any State would create many problems and we have been listening to them.
"It appears that the Government of India only listen to those groups who can voice their aspirations to the loudest while deliberately ignoring the smaller groups which cannot voice their aspirations to the same decibel or intensity.
The Government of India never considers merit of the issue", Adani said.
Nonetheless, UNC would carry on the ongoing movement until the demand is achieved.
Incidentally, the ongoing peace talk between the Government of India and NSCN-IM started on August 1, 1997. The Naga People's Convention held at Senapati on July 1, 2010 resolved to urge the Government of India for an alternative political arrangement for the Nagas of Manipur outside the Government of Manipur pending a final settlement to the ongoing political dialogue between Government of India and NSCN-IM.
Since then, UNC has held five rounds of tripartite talks involving the Government of India and Government of Manipur on their demand.
Currently, the UNC is awaiting communication from the Government of India for the 6th round of talk.
The demand for unification of Naga inhabited areas and establishment of a separate State for Nagas seems to have been sidelined as a very remote possibility as far as points of agreements are concerned with regard to the political dialogue between Government of India and NSCN-IM.