Dimapur, Feb. 19 (EMN): Stating that the stands of Naga National Council (NNC) has been that of Naga sovereignty and nothing less, the organisation has urged all the Nagas to refresh their memory. It stated that all the Nagas living in the country have unflinchingly supported the NNC as manifested by the Nagas plebiscite on May 16, 1951.
NNC CEC members, Zapuvisie Lhousa Kuotsu, mentioned that Nagas had not been Indians and their land had absolutely never been a part of India from the very inception of time. He added that because of the Nagas’ resolute maintenance of their rights, “India had come killing and destroying them; by the act of which India truly stands abominably guilty and irrevocably condemned forever.”
Kuotsu also stated that overt declaration of “our rights” had been being ever most diligently carried on to this day without any letup by the Nagas starting from the instant the Nagas Club’s presentation of the historic Memorandum in 1929 to the Sir Simon Commission.
“Having been most wrongly condemned as guilty for speaking up for their rights, the Naga houses and churches were all reduces to ashes. Indiscriminate firing of guns of all calibers on whomsoever came on sight resulted in decimating more than one lakh precious Naga lives,” the statement added.
NNC stated that only much after the overwhelming majority of the Nagas have well started on their rightful destiny; a group of renegade Nagas allowed themselves to be manipulated by India and came up with a 16-point draft and birthed the illegitimate “separate state” and brought about the legacy of election to defile its virtuous history ever since.
It lamented that even now in 2018, many so-called leaders are busy vying for their places in the 60 seats that are up for grabs. On being elected, it said all would swear to be loyal to the Indian Constitution.
Kuotsu has requested all the candidates not to ever forget nor neglect the profound Naga national heritage.
As certain section were engaged in finding solution, the NNC stated that: “If the solution were to result in Naga Sovereignty, then all the Nagas would be most willing and well humoured; but if the solution is one within the ambit of the Constitution of India, Nagas would most definitely reject the same.”
Also observing that some Nagas are working with other Indian national parties, NNC urged such persons to carefully discern the fact that all the Indian national parties are designed to swallow up the Nagas and her interests.
In the light of the above stated circumstances, NNC urged all the Nagas, especially the candidates to refresh the memory.
