Dimapur, Sep. 1 (EMN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has accused Nagaland Governor and India’s interlocutor for Indo-Naga political negotiation, RN Ravi, of trying to distort the historical truth, citing his recent Indian Independence Day message to the people of the state where he said that the leaders of Naga Hills stood in solidarity with the rest of the country and thwarted the British conspiracy to partition India and give away northeast India to Pakistan.
In a press statement, the federation stated that the Nagas declared their Independence on August 14 1947 and the same was ratified in the Naga plebiscite in 1951’; adding that the Naga areas were became a part of the Indian union “neither by consent nor by conquest”.
The NSF went on to say that continued glorification of “the 16th Point Charter of Demands which had long been disowned by the Naga people” and patronising Naga People's Convention (NPC) founders and leaders were matters of concern to the Naga youth and students.
“The Naga youths and students are fed up of his rhetoric with the intent to divide the Naga people. The Governor’s claims and successive misadventures only reveals his shallow understanding of the Naga history and also the narrow walls within which he has been trying to solve the vexed Indo-Naga Political issue,” read the press release.
The federation further said that the governor should “adopt a more pragmatic approach in order to ensure that the interests of the two entities are upheld through the political solution”.