IM's stand on SC Jamir
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network

Dimapur, April 21 2011: The Isak-Muivah group of the NSCN has expressed unhappiness over the ongoing peace talks between New Delhi and the outfit.

In its statement today the NSCN-IM also refuted allegations that the outfit was trying to assassinate SC Jamir, former CM of Nagaland.

Regarding the peace talks, the NSCN-IM said, "The NSCN feels impelled to remind the Government of India about how the peace process between the GoI and the NSCN was initiated.

If the GoI has forgotten in what spirit the peace process was initiated, it may derail" .

It said at the instance of PV Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India, the outfit's chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th Muivah met him in Paris on June 12,1995.During the meeting PV Narasimha Rao had proposed a political dialogue to resolve the political conflict, the NSCN-IM added" .

In response, our collective leadership said, 'Okay, Mr Prime Minister, why don't you talk with the Khaplang Group and the NNC? We will not stand in the way, but we will not be a party to it." According to NSCN-IM Rao replied, "Why should I talk with them? The issue is not with them.

The issue is with you.

The people are with you, and so if we talk with you, we believe a solution can be worked out.

I will not talk with others.

I know who they are.

They are in my hands" .

Then our collective leadership told him, 'It seems there are two Prime Ministers in India', Rao had again replied by saying, "I know who is who; I will not allow anyone to stand in the way.

I will deal with the issue by myself'." Consequently, a ceasefire was declared and negotiations started, the NSCN-IM said.

" In the formal meeting between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, the Home Minister of India said that RS Pandey has been appointed with confidence to be the interlocutor.

It was also said that no one should issue any statement except the PM, Home Minister and RS Pandey regarding the peace process between GoI and NSCN," the NSCN-IM added.

It then stated that unexpectedly, GK Pillai started standing in the way with the 'strange' statement, "After a little bit of progress with the NSCN-IM from the present stage, we shall start talks with NSCN-K including State Government fully in picture" .

The NSCN-IM advised that it will be wise on the part of any authority not to exert beyond its authority and the government of India is expected to check such undue exercise of power before the peace process is endangered.

Meanwhile, The National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) in its 'joint council meeting' of the 'steering committee members' and the 'council of kilonsers' on Thursday at its 'council headquarters' took a strong exception to the false allegation levelled against the NSCN-IM by the Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi that the outfit is purportedly planning to assassinate SC Jamir.

"The resultant directive issued to the Nagaland State Government by New Delhi to provide sufficient security to SC Jamir on account of self-created manoeuvres is to draw petty sympathy votes.

This directive of Delhi exposes total failure of its intelligence agencies who file reports to the Home Ministry at the whims of some crooked and wicked persons having no conscience and welfare for the people," the NSCN-IM said.

The NSCN said it has no such intention to harm SC Jamir.

"However the inputs reportedly received from so-called 'reliable sources' are derived from SC Jamir himself and his brother Sungit Jamir who is the 'president of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee.

The objective is clearly to initiate pre-emptive steps for another upcoming stage-managed-ambush judging by his past track record," it added.

"It may be recalled that to start the 2008 election campaign with a big bang he had stage managed an ambush on 24th November 2007 at Changki area to draw sympathy of the people as his popularity had reached ground level.

Secondly, in 1999 when SC Jamir was implicated in a ' 30,000 (thirty thousand) crores lottery scam, he diverted the attention of the people by a similar ambush on his own convoy between Dimapur and Kohima on 29th November 1999 .

Significantly, at both the incidents, nobody even suffered a scratch, leave alone casualties.

He had also blamed the NSCN for both the incidents," the NSCN-IM alleged.

The NSCN-IM then stated that it will no longer tolerate its name to be tarnished to serve self motivated interests.

"And therefore, SC Jamir and Sungit Jamir must come out with a confessional statement and make their position clear to the NSCN and the Naga people at the earliest for their latest gimmick," the outfit demanded.

The NSCN-IM further stated that it highly questions the intentions of New Delhi on the one hand "for engaging with us to finalize the Indo-Naga political issue while conniving with the likes of S.C.Jamir who have spent his entire life bargaining the rights of the Naga people and its nation for his position.

We strongly demand that the Home Ministry of India clear its position too" .

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