Dimapur, April 5 (EMN): The Zeliangrong Students’ Union Manipur (ZSUM) expressed shock to learn the Tatar Hoho, NSCN/ GPRN (IM) arbitrary decision made on March 23 2018 during their Tatar Hoho session at Hebron in Peren district of Nagaland to trifurcate by recognising the Zeliangrong tribe into three separate tribes ( zeme, liangmai and rongmei) without prior information and consent from the Zeliangrong Apex and Frontal Organisations.
A press release issued by the ZSUM on April 5 mentioned that such action is extremely contradictory and shocking to “Zeliangrong Tribe” because Zeliangrong tribe has been recognized by the Naga provisional government (GPRN) in all the social and political platforms.
The release further stated that the unilateral decision of the Tatar Hoho on the matter is a direct challenge and an insult to all the Zeliangrong Apex and Frontal Organizations as the Tatar Hoho failed to consult with these organisations.
Interference to the Zeliangrong tribe by the Tatar HOHO is not a good sign, the release stated.
‘The Zeliangrong people have absolute right to resolve its own differences within the family. In any given democratic nation or social set there is no room to interfere in ones family’s affair,’ the released notified.
Such act to Zeliangrong family is said to have direct negative impact even to the Naga national movement.
‘We the students union doesn’t want such thing to happen as we have full faith in the Naga political negotiation that one day we shall overcome as we have made an immense political progress by signing the Framework Agreement on August 3 2015 between GOI and NSCN/GPRN (IM),’ the release stated.
The ZSUM in the interest of Zeliangrong people in particular and in the larger interest of Nagas through the release has sincerely appealed the Tatar Hoho GPRN/NSCN (IM) to withdraw the said decision at the earliest.
