Being a Southern Naga is as hard as they come when you’re boxed-in in a cross section between regional citizenship and a concept of larger culminated ethnic coalition. Where you’re privileged on proprietary as a state citizen in one hand and on the other you’re treated to swallow the soft pill of a sociodemographic second class ethnicity by the indigenous majority. For example: the notable caption on clusters of sensory overload rhetoric interprets into—”one South is a citizen of Manipur but you’re a Kacha Naga (certain groups of Naga ethnic that were not integrally in full motion as an involved settlement with the crux of central ethnic rhetorics and on larger Macro and Micro real-continuum spaces of commerce and commute); a refugee, and they (Southern Nagas) don’t have any empirical cogency, coherent ground developments or legal status and rights to procreate a Naga ethnic coalition by merging the underscored districts in the demarcated realms of a new outlandish political conception — and such impelling ideas are chastized by the whole party involved on this socio-political linked imbroglio.
Most people are commonly aware of the fact that Naga sovereignty involves many convoluted variables due to many ground merits and regional entanglements that are well acknowledged and apprehended among the consensuses and the overarching particles of this myriad physical and abstract convoluted entities and conceptuals. It has both far end reaching consequences that would translate into Central Counter Measures in effect on the state machineries and near scouting consequences possibly amounting to regional clashes and reckless debates. On more common lens, the integral solution lobbyists, acting on for a stepwise simultaneity in the undertaking for procuring viable and positive steps and making translucent into transparent tractions, both in the central and state-regional developments, can generate conducive results and hopefully allow finding different optimistic options that are ethical, feasible and pragmatic in the standards of genuine socio-democractic political developments.
One of the main contentions deriving out of this rhetorical dilemma is the status of Nagaland state. The headlines read there will be no integration and sovereignty for the Naga occupied lands under the banquet of Naga solution arrangement. It is well recognised and apprehended by the people involved in this row of regional and political conflict and disagreement, that any unsolicited and unwarranted move could unfold into more tension and confusion to all the state-regionals. Lately the trending circulation of the notorious theme “No integration and Sovereignty” and “will Nagaland cease to exist” speaks clearly in tantamount that the Nagaland’s stand on formulating for an arrangement has dawned upon, in the utmost interest of pacifying affected state counter claims and the intravenous regional infractions made in the opposing claims — this way, construct an understanding decorum and a viable lobby to discourse and channel their pointers to the affected states, other Nagas, New Delhi, to seek out options where the Northeast insurgency and political coaxial traffic, particularly in Naga issue surrounding areas, could be brokered an optimal deal, and a feasible solution or arrangement come finds its way among and between the regional plaintiffs, the operative combs of guerrilla insurgency, the state and centre etc.
This goes a long way in solving many progressive key demographics in the social and economic growth ventures, policies and other looming commutable contingents apart from the escalating political and cultural growth. The Nagas of Nagaland has a larger role to play to intercept the implacable anomaly of diverging claims and mutual work on ground with every stakeholder’s accounting derivatives and produce results that is plausible and a viable solution in practice for every region and state. The Nagas of Nagaland are both equally anticipated by the rest of the parties to initiate a positive and well calculated step for appeasement and diplomacy, and equally apprehended should the other stakeholders be not taken into account during the procuring of a Nagaland solution and the arrangement of bilateral ties between states and the centre.
In this trying times, we should identify and own our right position and political place, so that everyone can find the correct political track, that doesn’t come across as a tasting one’s own medicine, even though as layman we risk constructing proper postulated opinion or with a draft of wind - create erroneous and bias chain reaction, leading to conceptual death for a realistic alternate political equation. Though constitutional ramifications may have trouble in correctly assimilating the reality back ends of ground developments, an alternative solution through natural reasoning and involving of every other aspects of social and political realities can act as an impetus to drive the solution bus to an impeccable rendezvous of political success.
Which so far is what has been embroiling in the euphemistic and overtly panels of Naga Solution related discussions. Nagas of Nagaland have a greater role to play indeed. Every Naga should be a man of rights and not subjugate to erroneous and unaccountable mercenary of politically biased forces. Be a conscientious and a rightful man and not a slave of prejudice. Nagas of Nagaland, the ball is in your court.
Markson Newmai
War Cemetery, Kohima.