Swu, Muivah finally leave for Delhi to resume peace talks
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Dimapur, November 19 2013: NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chisi Swu, the outfit's general secretary Th Muivah and 12 other NSCN-IM leaders have left Dimapur for New Delhi today to resume the peace parley with the Government of India.

An intelligence source informed Newmai News Network this evening that the NSCN-IM team led by Swu and Muivah will hold talks in the national capital with the Central leaders.

Confirming the news, an NSCN-IM leader said the Naga outfit leaders have gone to New Delhi on the invitation of the government of India.

"However, it is not clear on which date the talks will be held," he added.

It can be noted here that the last time NSCN-IM leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Th Muivah had met the representatives of the government of India was the first week of December last year.

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

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.

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 colourful Christmas stars atop the Naga houses.

Again, the hype got climaxed last year's Christmas time after Union Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde had 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 the early settlement of the Naga political problem.

Now, it has been over 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 year for the Christmas and ever since he was confining to the outfit's base Hebron, off Dimapur.

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