IM irked with Nagaland Minister
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Dimapur, June 27 2013:
A Nagaland Minister has earned the wrath of NSCN-IM for having had asked the students to spread the message that Nagaland is an integral part of India.
"It is a matter of discomfort to follow the speech of Mr.Merentoshi Jamir, Minister for Youth Resources and Sports who said this on the occasion of NCC Special Integration Camp at Patkai Christian College, Dimapur," said the NSCN-IM today.
According to the NSCN-IM, Merentoshi had naively appealed to the students to spread the message that Nagaland is an integral part of India.
"Forgetting that Nagas have its history and its customary law and therefore we have our own political identity.
And it is clearly declared that, during the Indo-Naga Political talks the government of India has also come to acknowledge the history of the Nagas as per Amsterdam Joint Communiqu� on July 11, 2002 .
In a vulnerable position and novice in politics as the youngest minister he should have stayed away from touching sensitive political issue.
The occasion and his position as minister must have carried him away but history is a living testimony that Nagaland was never an integral part of India.
The ongoing Indo-Naga Political talks is getting closer to declare Naga political solution but NSCN negotiating team under Isak Chishi Swu and Th.Muivah as the Chief Negotiator have never conformist the sovereignty of the Naga people," the NSCN-IM stated today.
Therefore Mr.Merentoshi Jamir, the Nagaland Minister for Youth Resources and Sports should also at least learn the Naga history before attempting to comment on Naga political issue, the NSCN-IM advises the minister.