Common front of all North East UG groups on the anvil
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network

Dimapur, July 21 2014: The process to float a 'common front' of all the North East underground organisations is underway.

This was stated by NSCN-K leader Wangtin Naga when Newmai News Network asked on the matter on the sideline of the meeting between the Naga outfit and the Government of India's Cease Fire Monitoring Group (CFMG) at Police Complex, Chumukedima in Dimapur last Friday.

Wangtin Naga, who is the supervisor of the NSCN-K's Cease Fire Supervisory Board (CFSB), led his team in the meeting with Lt.Gen.

(Rtd) NK Singh's led Government of India's CFMG delegation in the routine meeting on the cease fire.

The meeting between the two parties was held after 17 months.

After the meeting, Newmai News Network asked the NSCN-K leader on the outfit's effort to float a common front of the insurgent groups of the North East region to which Wangtin Naga said, "The process is underway" .

According to Wangtin Naga, the need to have a common front of all the North East has become important as the Government of India continues to discriminate the rights of the North East people and "without the joint effort of the North East groups it will be a futile exercise" .

Wangtin Naga's comment has come a year after NSCN-K supremo S.S.Khaplang's disclosure to a section of media that effort to float a common platform of all the North East insurgent groups was underway to fight for the 'North East country'.

It can be noted here that Wangtin Naga had dismissed the ongoing talks between the Government of India and the NSCN-IM as just "the IM talks" and not the "Naga talks".

He had stated that in case there is an outcome from the ongoing talks the NSCN-K will not accept it.

The NSCN-K leader had said that in case the outfit enters the formal dialogue process with the Government of India, the Naga churches, the Naga civil society organisations, the students' organisations, Naga intellectuals, equal representatives from all Naga underground groups and the Naga women organisations will be taken along to the negotiating table to hold talks.

"If such things can happen then only we can call it the Naga peace talks," Wangtin Naga elucidated, adding, "The talks led by Isak and Muivah is only the NSCN-IM talks" .

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