Creation of new districts must be rolled back: UNC
15 Feb 2025 23:33:49
Our Correspondent
SENAPATI, Feb 15: The United Naga Council has reiterated its demand to roll back creation of seven new districts in 2016.
The districts were created by the Government without consulting and informing the Nagas and dishonouring four MoUs and assurance of the Government of India. It must be rolled back, said UNC president Ng Lorho.
He said this during the Lui-Ngai-Ni festival at Senapati district headquarters.
The UNC president stated that the tripartite talk between the Govt of Manipur, Govt of India and the UNC has reached the third round with AK Mishra, Advisor NE representing the Govt of India.
The last round of talks was held on January 30, and in the meeting, it was agreed that a proposal on the roll back will be presented in the next round of tripartite talk scheduled to be held in the month of April, 2025, he said.
Ng Lorho stated that the April round of talk will be a crucial one and the consequences will be determined by the outcome of the meeting.
He also reiterated UNC's demands to stop border fencing in Naga areas.
He asserted that the Nagas never agreed to the bilateral agreement made between India and Myanmar that delimited and demarcated the Naga areas by drawing artificial imaginary lines without the informed consent of the Naga villagers.
The proposed border fencing in the middle of the Naga area, ignoring the traditional boundary with Myanmar is not acceptable, he added.
"To scrap the Free Movement Regime and enforce border fencing in Naga inhabited areas is not just a policy shift but a direct attack on the rights and dignities of the Nagas," said the UNC president. "The Nagas genuinely hope that the long awaited Indo-Naga political settlement, based on the Framework Agreement will soon come to a logical conclusion," he said.
Nagas should be extra cautious and should neither succumb to any kind of piecemeal solution to further fragment the Nagas, nor give in to any evil game plan designed to drag the Nagas into conflict, Lorho stated.
SENAPATI, Feb 15: The United Naga Council has reiterated its demand to roll back creation of seven new districts in 2016.
The districts were created by the Government without consulting and informing the Nagas and dishonouring four MoUs and assurance of the Government of India. It must be rolled back, said UNC president Ng Lorho.
He said this during the Lui-Ngai-Ni festival at Senapati district headquarters.
The UNC president stated that the tripartite talk between the Govt of Manipur, Govt of India and the UNC has reached the third round with AK Mishra, Advisor NE representing the Govt of India.
The last round of talks was held on January 30, and in the meeting, it was agreed that a proposal on the roll back will be presented in the next round of tripartite talk scheduled to be held in the month of April, 2025, he said.
Ng Lorho stated that the April round of talk will be a crucial one and the consequences will be determined by the outcome of the meeting.
He also reiterated UNC's demands to stop border fencing in Naga areas.
He asserted that the Nagas never agreed to the bilateral agreement made between India and Myanmar that delimited and demarcated the Naga areas by drawing artificial imaginary lines without the informed consent of the Naga villagers.
The proposed border fencing in the middle of the Naga area, ignoring the traditional boundary with Myanmar is not acceptable, he added.
"To scrap the Free Movement Regime and enforce border fencing in Naga inhabited areas is not just a policy shift but a direct attack on the rights and dignities of the Nagas," said the UNC president. "The Nagas genuinely hope that the long awaited Indo-Naga political settlement, based on the Framework Agreement will soon come to a logical conclusion," he said.
Nagas should be extra cautious and should neither succumb to any kind of piecemeal solution to further fragment the Nagas, nor give in to any evil game plan designed to drag the Nagas into conflict, Lorho stated.
