WC-NNPG slams Global Naga Forum as ‘propped-up mouthpiece’ o
WC-NNPG slams Global Naga Forum as ‘propped-up mouthpiece’ of NSCN (IM)
Describing the Global Naga Forum (GNF) as a “propped-up mouthpiece” of NSCN (IM), the Working Committee of Naga National Political Groups (WC-NNPG) has asked the forum to “enlighten the Nagas on the finer details” of Framework Agreement
DIMAPUR — Describing
the Global Naga Forum (GNF) as a “propped-up mouthpiece” of NSCN (IM), the
Working Committee of Naga National Political Groups (WC-NNPG) has asked the
forum to “enlighten the Nagas on the finer details” of Framework Agreement (FA)
and justify why the Agreed Position is a counter-agreement to the FA.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the committee urged the
forum to also interpret the concept of “shared-sovereignty, contemporary
realities, and co-existence as committed by IM in the FA and explain how these
terms delineate ‘sovereignty and independence’ of the Nagas.”
“The intentional act of selective amnesia by the IM's
mouthpiece, such as the GNF, is fuelling more division within the Naga
political groups, rather than providing support and momentum towards
realisation of an inclusive Naga political solution being propagated by the WC-NNPG
through Agreed Position and the Status Paper.
“The GNF's posturing is anathema and is causing further
obstruction to the quest for genuine reconciliation and unity among the NPGs.
The GNF is therefore asked to provide public clarification on its status and
position, whether it is merely an appendage of IM, as is obvious by its
persistent acts of glorifying IM, or truly represents the global Naga
community,” the statement read.
According to the committee, the FA is “exclusively for the
IM, by the IM and the IM; and does, in no manner, ensure or reflect inclusive
political solution encompassing all the Naga stakeholders.”
In order to “remedy this political blunder,” it stated that
the Centre and the Naga people had identified the necessity to “initiate a broad-based,
comprehensive, and holistic political agreement that can ensure an honourable,
enduring, and inclusive political solution.”
“The WC-NNPG thus was conceived with political clarity, and
the 'Agreed Position' subsequently was appended with the GoI, which provided
for a transparent and exhaustive political dialogue fully supported by the Naga
people.
“Basing on the ‘historical and political rights of the
Nagas’ and the rights of the Nagas to self-determine their own future, the
'Status Paper,' a political document outlining a pragmatic blueprint for an
inclusive solution to the Indo-Naga political issue, was thus collaboratively
produced by having been agreed to in principle by both entities, i.e., the GOI
and the WC. And to guarantee inclusivity, an implementation scheme was to be
worked out immediately by taking all the Naga negotiating groups on board,” it
stated.
However, to the utter dismay of the Nagas, the IM, instead
of expediting the ‘execution plan,’ retracted its October 31, 2019, declaration
“and in order to evade responding to public probing of the secret contents of
FA (if it exists), began manufacturing propaganda in total contradiction to its
own FA commitment,” it added.
“The only obstacle to Naga political solution is IM's
exclusive complexity and its sponsored puppet organisations blindly joining the
chorus,” the committee maintained.
Also, the WC-NNPG stated that the letter written by 21 MPs
to Amit Shah is a clear indication that the FA and the contemplated political
solution indeed are within the confines of the Indian Union.
“While appreciating the 21 Indian lawmakers for expressing
their support for an early solution, we must not make unnecessary hype or
assume the move as legitimisation of Framework Agreement over the Agreed Position.
“Both the agreements have been signed with the same
interlocutor as empowered by the same government (GoI) and the same Prime
Minister of India over the same political issue (Indo-Naga political issue).
And while the Agreed Position was signed with prior consultations and
endorsement of all the stakeholders and Naga people at large and remains
transparent in the public domain, the Framework Agreement belongs exclusively
to a particular group (NSCN-IM); the negotiation process also remained isolated,
opaque, and accessible to only a few selected leaders of IM,” it stated.
The Framework Agreement, it added, neither commands the
endorsement of the Naga people nor does it represent the popular will of the
Nagas.
