UNC team in Delhi to meet Central leaders
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
New Delhi, September 16 2014:
On the invitation of the Central Government, a 10-member delegation of the United Naga Council (UNC) arrived in the national capital this evening.
The UNC team will begin a series of meeting with the Central leaders from tomorrow.
Sources disclosed Newmai News Network that UNC president L Adani, UNC general secretary Gaidon Kamei, its speaker Timothy, UNC information secretary Milan Shimray are in the team.
According to sources, the UNC team will meet Prime Minnister Narendra Modi, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, DoNER minister General (rtd) VK Singh and others.
However, the precise dates for each meeting and the leaders have not been disclosed.
The sources said the UNC team will apprised the Central leaders on various issues confronting the tribals in Manipur.
The issue of Alternative Arrangement will also be one of the main agenda of the UNC's Delhi trip, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, a separate source said the issues for which the UNC had conducted mass rallies on August 30 in the four Naga dominated district headquarters of Tamenglong, Senapati, Ukhrul and Chandel in Manipur on August 30 will be placed before the Central leaders.
The August 30 rallies were held organised by the United Naga Council (UNC) demanding from the Government of India for expediting an acceptable and honourable settlement of the Indo-Naga issue.
The rallies were also in protest against the alleged militarisation of Naga areas particularly Ukhrul district by Government of Manipur with Manipur State forces in utter disrespect of the Indo-Naga cease-fire.
They were also held in protest against the Government pf Manipur's alleged disrespect for the democratic process of tripartite talk on Alternative Arrangement which has progressed to a logical stage.
The August 30 rallies were also in protest against the unabated aggressive policies of the Government of Manipur to encroach upon the ancestral lands of the Nagas and tribals through Laws, Acts & Notifications to subvert the protective provisions of the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (MLR & LR) Act, 1960 .
Mention may be made here that the joint memorandum on the above points of demand and protests was submitted by the tribe organisations and frontal organisation of the respective districts through the Government of India agencies to the Prime Minister of India and also dispatched through post.