Dimapur, April 22 (EMN): The Dimasa Public Organisation Nagaland (DPON) has questioned why the state government has excluded its Bishu festival from the list of mini-Hornbill festivals announced recently.
“While welcoming the state cabinet decision to hold mini Hornbill festival in district head quarters, the Dimasa Public Organization, Nagaland, is deeply pained for not covering/including the Bishu festival which is a post harvest festival of the Dimasa(Kachari) in Dimapur district,” read a press statement from the organisation on Sunday.
It stated that Bishu was a ‘government-recognised’ festival in the state of Nagaland. “It is not understood if it was purposely overlooked by the government to erase the legacy of the tribe. Kachari being one of the recognised indigenous sixteen tribes have concentration in 16 very old villages having the traditional land holding in Dimapur district.
“We ought to know the reason for non-inclusion of the Bishu festival from the government if the Kachari tribe existence in this traditional villages and due recognition to it is to be abolished henceforth,” the statement read.
