Expelled NSCN-K leaders to float new outfit soon
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network

Dimapur, March 29 2015: Expelled NSCN-K leaders Y Wangtin Naga and P Tikhak have decided to float a new Naga underground outfit.

Bith the former NSCN-K leaders disclosed today that they will announce the name of their outfit in two days' time.

In a lengthy statement, Wangtin Naga who was the Supervisor of the NSCN-K's Ceasefire Supervisory Board (CFSB) and P Tikhak, former NSCN-K kilonser from Arunachal Pradesh said in a next couple of days "we will officially declare the new party which will work for peace and National reconciliation and build a better society for the Naga people" .

Recalling the past, both Wangtin and Tikhak said it has been almost about two decades since "we got ourselves associated with the NSCN led by Chairman SS Khaplang.

"Firstly, because he is one of our own as 'blood is thicker than water.' Secondly, we felt that, he is one of the tallest leaders and therefore we chose him to serve the cause of our people.

Right after coming out of our college we gave our youthful days to the Nation and particularly to Mr Khaplang.

We felt it was our necessity to assist Khaplang in all good times and bad times.

Therefore, we swam together and sank together in all situations, even when almost all the National workers from the Indian side decided to leave him during the 2011 split.

We, both of us were with him and had a very difficult time to get the ceasefire back on track with the NSCN-K keeping in mind the interest of the people and thus, we stood by him at all odds," they said in a joint statement issued this evening.

According to them, immediately after the re-arrangement of the ceasefire pact with the Government of India, some "National workers" came back to join the NSCN-K."They were readily accepted as we had the feeling that, they must have come back with a good intention but, immediately they started developing many controversies among us.

The situation has come thus far that, those few power mongers and money mongers have fed the ears of Khaplang so much so that, he simply forgot all our contributions for the people of eastern Nagaland and for the NSCN, including the signing of ceasefire agreement with the Union of Myanmar.

We never wanted any plum portfolio, we were never after money.

At any point of time if we have shared any of our opinion then, it was only because of our humble attempt to rebuild the past and lost glory of NSCN-K.Unfortunately, Chairman Khaplang was always misguided, mis-represented and misled by handful of people," the statement added.

"We thought that, we shall remain as a bridge among the Nagas of both the sides where we can envision for a shared future.

He has failed to read our nerves," the statement of the former NSCN-K leaders stated.

He has fallen prey to a handful of people whose only agenda is to mint money in the name of political movement and not actually work for the cause of the people.

"Now that, he has expelled us from the NSCN-K; we are free to serve our people at our best.

We feel that, we had been freed to join the Naga people through the reconciliation process.

We feel that, we are free to give however small contribution it may be, in building a new and better Naga society.

Therefore, as long as this expulsion is serving the interest of the Naga people, if it is serving the interest of peace, we are prepared to take hundreds of more such expulsions," the statement added.

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