Speculations over Naga peace talks resurface once again
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Dimapur, November 03 2013: Speculations over the outcome of Naga peace talks refuse to die down although the tepidness of the hype generated around the issue has become today's reality.

The last time NSCN-IM leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Th Muivah had met the representatives of Government of India, it was in first week of December last year.

Since then both the sides chose to remain mute while the elusive Naga political solution keeps laymen as well as intellectuals busy in the world of speculations.

Sources close to Muivah and Swu said today that communications between the Government of India and the NSCN-IM leadership are going on.

When asked whether formal talks will resume soon, the sources said, "Let's wait and see" .

As reported earlier by NNN, election times are the period when colourful and unexpected promises are made by the government of India.

This news agency had speculated that the 'wintry feeling' is here and the Central government must be busy packing hollow "Christmas gift" for the Nagas, as were the 'Supra-State' and 'Bhutan-type' arrangement for the Nagas and what more.

Talks of Lok Sabha polls are doing the round and so is the Christmas programme among the Nagas.

But, this time too, will the Central government comes out with its surprises again? .

The Nagas are today too indifferent to all these hollow promises from the Government of India and so this Christmas is not going to be diluted by the hypes on the settlement of the protracted Naga political issue.

The Nagas seem to be tired of the hype of late.

Two years ago, Guwahati based newspaper Seven Sisters Post (SSP) had reported about the Nagas' Supra-State status which was reported to be a Christmas gift of that year.

The report had swayed the social tidings in Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh opposing that purported arrangement.

The hype got over with the withering of Christmas trees and the fading of the colourful Christmas stars atop the Naga houses.

Again, the hype got climaxed last year's Christmas time after Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde assured that the Naga political issue will be settled by March 2013, the time the Nagaland Assembly election process got over.

That situation was even buttered it by the concerted show of the now-unheard Joint Legislature Forum (JLF) formed by the 60 MLAs of the Nagaland legislative Assembly of the previous tenure to push for early settlement of the Naga political problem.

Now, it has been almost 11 months that the dialogue between the Government of India and the NSCN-IM has not been resumed.

NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah had come to Nagaland on December 18 last for the Christmas and ever since he has been confining to the outfit's base Hebron, off Dimapur.

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