IM trumps shared sovereignty card
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network

Dimapur, October 03 2016: NSCN-IM has said today that "the Nagas and India are entering a new relationship based on the Framework Agreement" .

This was stated by NSCN-IM Home Minister Rh Raising while interacting with civil societies in Dimapur.

According to him, the 'Framework Agreement' signed in 2015 is based on the uniqueness of Naga history, which means Nagas have never been a party to the Union of India or that of Burma.

"The Government of India has, for the first time, recognized the sovereignty of the Nagas.

The Naga people are now a recognized entity.

However, for the sake of security, social and commercial interests, the two people will share sovereign power and coexist as two entities.

Government of India has also recognized the land of the Nagas stating that land and its resources including minerals belong to the Nagas.

Nagas are the owners of their land and everything in it.

The Nagas and India are entering a new relationship based on the Framework Agreement," Rh Raising stated.

Claiming that the era of the Nagas has begun, the NSCN-IM Home Minister said that the era of the "British has gone never to come back and the era of occupation of Nagalim by India and Burma has to be ended to give way to the era of the Nagas.

"The era of the Nagas has begun according to the timing of the Lord.

No power however big and strong can stop the Nagas from reaching their destination.

The Nagas will be blessed in the east, in the west, in the north and south and everywhere.

They will be successful in all fields and in whatever they do," the NSCN-IM leader said.

Rh Raising said it is the time for the Nagas to start building the Nation.

He stated that building the "damaged psychology of our people", broken relations with our neighboring people and Nations through dialogue is a social necessity.

He added that building the war-torn relation between India and the Nagas is indispensable.

"On top of that, building our relation with God is imperative and of paramount importance," he further said.

According to him, in order to develop "our land" and move forward it requires 'us' to build human resources.

"We need to establish science and technological schools, colleges and universities, medical colleges and universities, sports universities, religious universities, cultural institutions so that we grow physically, mentally and spiritually to become a creative people and community," added Raising.

The NSCN-IM leader said that to become a creative people, "we must learn to live by the principle of self-reliance so that we produce our own bread and honey" .

Rh Raising forcefully stated, "We will be identified with what we create.

What we have invented or created is our identity.

We will rebuild everything destroyed by war.

We do not have an identity until and unless we produce something made in Nagalim" .

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