The birth-right of the people is symmetrical instrument inheritance in the establishment of any democratic government. Without garnering the people’s birth-right to exhibit and flourish, an establishment cannot be deemed as rightly democratic government. The whole concept of democracy being a government of the people by and for, without consultation of the people in under laying any blueprint to rule and govern over the people, is a breach against the natural birth-right of the people. No matter how subtle the ramification of any structure proper or controversial could be craft, without total transparency to commence the verdict of the people in the finished product (not primary blocks), the birth-right of the people is thwarted in abeyance.
Our birth-right is natural and is not limited with our identity and symbol. There is an affinity in remarking that our identity and symbol is not absolute but linear with time, reality and advancement. Just like how our ancestors were branded as a savage ethnicity of head hunters, and how the Germans has an ancestral tag of being branded as barbarians, nevertheless... these identities and symbol do not define our intrinsic quality and index of the present as a human being, but remains a historical affluence for record. Our Naga belonging should not be limited with Naga itself. We are born as a human first before we inherit our values and culture from the society. Our birth-right is of common right in the natural order of things. Without rights there is no order, without order there is no progressive society, and without birth-rights, our shared values and belonging is subjection to confinement deterred from exploring, enhancing and advancing as modern people. There is no justice without birth-right. Even the Indian independence struggle was ignited by heart rendering slogans like “swaraj is my birthright and I will have it,” advocated by Lokmanya Tilak.
Just like how the Germans are still Germans, except not barbaric; so forth Nagas will always be Nagas except not suppressed of rights. Our identity and belonging would only proliferate and thrive for commonness only when our environment is cultured with our universal birthright to nourish our growth, exploration and advancement.
Although the Naga Concordant among groups and individuals is valued, to shoulder public liability cannot be concisely claimed as a legitimate channel in harboring the weight of public opinion… for some invalidated grounds like, it doesn’t comprise the signatories of all the NNPGs of Nagaland along with public leaders —who represented the popular public side of interest and confidence – still, any proposal of arrangement to rule over the people has to draw the final straw of inhabiting the people to assess, certify, validate, potential implant etc., else the people’s rights is ill-considered and neglected [this view being not directed and issued to any group or individual in particular but addressed generally as the matter is of general regard and consent]. Perhaps, maintaining perception and catering of present escalating demands could usher proper emphasis on what could be validated by the people.
Democracy is a political mechanism that runs and sustains on the peoples’ verdict across paradigms. Unless peoples verdict is held as the top-most priority, it becomes hard to distinct any political mechanism as democracy. India being the world’s largest democracy should also exhibit profound democratic proprietary in being a facilitator of democratic values, and conform to the public of Nagaland that no injustice is conceived.
Drawing the lines of what could be comprehended, the public and untold hardships saddled, the popular view it seems could be of forgiving and in confiding positive prospects, but keeping the people at bay on receiving end, may fail to compensate our heartfelt approval in diametric authority to preside.
In internal ideological conflicts, it would be sagacious for the center to allow the sections of people to adjudicate in solving within amicably before finalizing any settlement.
Like the slogan of the Black Panthers (political organization) “All Power to the People” may the people of Nagaland obtain way to have justice as our birth-right.
