Dimapur, Feb. 9: Expressing anguish over the continued standoff between the Naga people and the State government over the controversial Municipal Act, NSCN (K) was of the view that the present DAN government should gracefully pave way for the people’s interest to prevail.
NSCN (K) through its MIP termed it ‘highly pernicious’ on the part of the State government to resort to violent repression resulting to deaths and injuries of many and even calling in the Indian Army to flag march against its own citizen’s democratic protest.
‘Quelling the mass uprising violently speaks volume of the quality of leadership displaying no regards to the sentiments, interest and welfare of the people. The lengthy disruption of daily normal lives, destruction and mayhem must have already convinced the State government to accept the fate and concede to the people’s voice,’ it said.
It said the incumbent government, under no circumstances, should compromise what little protection the Nagas has been afforded under forcefully assimilated union without which the identity, culture and heritage of the Nagas not only is threatened but would forever be lost.
It added to barter away the unique provision conceded by the Government of India to Nagaland State as obligated by the extraordinary historical and political situation for the sake of selfish gain by certain political party would never augur well with either the Naga people in general or the NSCN/GPRN in particular.
NSCN/GPRN, therefore, was of the view that the present DAN Government should gracefully pave way for the people’s interest to prevail.
