Nagaland Tribes Council questions CM on framework agreement

Dimapur, April 3 (EMN): Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) attention has been drawn to the speech of the chief minister and NPF president, Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsü, during the Kohima Division NPF convention held recently in Kohima in which he had expressed support to the August 3, 2015, ‘Framework Agreement’ signed between GOI and NSCN (IM). ‘When the party president, who is also the chief minister of the State, is so confident in expressing such unconditional support to an exclusive agreement between GOI and NSCN (IM), NTC believes that the state leadership knows the contents of the agreement and feels contented with the provisions in it,’ NTC Media cell stated. It urged the State leadership to divulge the contents of the agreement for the people of Nagaland to know and understand, adding the State leadership has first to satisfy the stakeholders before he lends support to such an important deal. The framework agreement which was signed two years ago is an exclusive accord between GOI and NSCN (IM) without taking on board the major stakeholders. While lauding the State leadership as saying “this does not mean that the party supports one political group,” NTC questioned the State leadership as to what was his mechanism to include other NNPGs and stakeholders in the already signed agreement. NTC made it clear to one and all that any agreement under the framework will be an imposition since the major stakeholders were not taken into confidence prior to finalisation of the said agreement. In the light of the ongoing ‘unpalatable’ situation, NTC said the State leadership owe answer should anything goes wrong to the future of Nagaland.