Nagaland
NSF accused of trying to wipe out ‘any remnants of Naga Club’
The imbroglio over the ‘Naga Club building’ refuses to die down as the Naga Club has, this time, accused the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) of trying to wipe out any remnants of the Naga Club in order to usurp the club’s property for petty gains.
DIMAPUR — The imbroglio over the ‘Naga Club building’ refuses to die down as the Naga Club has, this time, accused the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) of trying to wipe out any remnants of the Naga Club in order to usurp the club’s property for petty gains.
“It is clear as to how the NSF prefers to consider the Naga Club as a dead organisation of the past and not as a vibrant, alive and active Institution from the past, surviving into the present and thriving, and striving for the future,” the Naga Club in a press release stated.
Terming the NSF’s claim as the “sole custodian” of the Naga Club building as a classic case of ‘Chowkidaar-Chor,’ the Naga Club stated that not only is the federation trying to distort the facts of Naga history by parroting a concocted false narrative of the Naga Club formation, but also indulging in a criminal act of attempting to steal the Naga Club’s physical assets, by attempting to obtain a land patta registered in favor of NSF.
“The Naga Club shall resist any such attempts by anyone misusing the office of the NSF to sabotage the endeavour of preserving the Naga History, which had been fostered by the wisdom of the pioneers of the Naga Club, and whose vision for all the Nagas had been clearly immortalised in the principles stated in The Simon Commission.
The Naga Club of today, as it was in the past, shall continue to uphold these principles,” it stated.
The club also alleged that when the attempts of NSF to usurp the Naga Club building and the land failed, the NSF launched a propaganda campaign to delegitimise the successive Naga Club officials who were duly elected to the club’s many contemporary visions and objectives to preserve the unquestionable rich legacy of the Nagas.
The Naga Club affirmed that it is determined to ensure that “misguided insolent youths” of the present young generation with little or no knowledge of history, or possessing a distorted knowledge of history, are not allowed to obliterate the institution of the Naga Club and the history of the Nagas associated with the Naga Club.