Everyone in Nagaland, including long standing non-Naga residents citizen know general secretary Th. Muivah makes all the NSCN(IM) decisions alone and its Ministry of Information Publicity (MIP) puts them as if it is from “the Collective Leadership”. Late Isaac Swu, even when the President was used for a titular decoration of the organisation and dittoed Muivah’s decisions.
The IM General Secretary is from a tribe with social institution where the decision making for the community rests with chief of the village more than the institution of democratic consultations and discussions among equals. It is significant that in all the more than several IM arranged so-called consultative meetings with the public of Nagaland, the general secretary did most of the talkings.
In the video of the grand Bangkok Naga consultative meeting, the IM leader is seen doing most of the talking, teaching politics, religion and knowledge of the mind of God on the Naga issue and gesticulated fervently to the gathered elite Naga delegates.
It is necessary for the public to know the man in depth of the Naga leader and sometimes we may have to touch on the deeper side of the person, it is not anti-national to say Muivah is a dictator. This indicates a measure of his leadership. His colleagues know to treat him like the North Koreans treat their president Kim Jong Un otherwise they would run the risk of being Un’s closest disposable relatives.
It is true, Muivah greatly updated the name the Naga in circles wider than the state, the Writer personally feels so, yet Nagaland can not accept everything of whatever Muivah says in 3rd August Accord with the GoI on matters concerning Nagaland, the state Muivah does not represent.
Manipur, the state to which Muivah belongs, strongly protests to the GoI that Manipur would not agree to whatever everything of Muivah’s demands against the desire of the Government of Manipur.
During the NNC negotiation with Gundevia, the Foreign Secretary GoI Representative in early 1960s, the Governor now of Odisha Mr. Chubatoshi Jamir representing Nagaland state in Delhi wrote to Shilu Ao, the then chief minister of Nagaland that GoI should not make agreement with the NNC over the head of the duly elected Government of Nagaland (GoN).
The GoI again in 1997 made a ceasefire agreement with the IM without the slightest information to the GoN. The state should have been contacted, such treatment of ‘taking the state for granted’ is a sign of dishonour to the state and sours the center-state relationships.
It is in record, Muivah changes his stands, Sstatements and words, sometimes even some meanings. What he said yesterday may be different from what he says today. It is risky to believe on what he says today.
Everybody in the Road knows NNC made Naga history irrefutable to India because of which Jawaharlal Nehru; India’s first Prime Minister had to agree with an overriding special constitutional provision for statehood of Nagaland. The IM tirelessly claims “India has accepted Naga’s unique history” as if the IM has attained it recently. It does not bode honourable for a great Organisation to make statement like this again and again repeatedly in the papers as if the Naga Public is a fool. This writer feels uncomfortable to write even these things like this in the print, had it not been to set the issue at an honourable rest.
The Government of India’s representative interlocutor Mr. Ravi and the Home Minister Rajnath Singh, earlier on more than one occasion, have refuted Muivah’s claims.
Recently a week ago, the IM Supremo claimed GoI has accepted the:
i. ‘Integration of Naga Areas’ and
ii. ‘Sovereignty of Nagalim’.
The IM leader had 2 years ago publicly stated ‘Integration and Sovereignty are not in the talk’, however a week ago he resurrected the issue and claimed the GoI has agreed to the Naga demand. The Home Ministry immediately and very categorically refuted him.
The state of Nagaland had been demanding “integration of contiguous Naga areas to state of Nagaland” in the 16-Point Agreement Talk long before the IM came into existence.
But the GoI has in a every certain categorically terms refuted the recent IM claim, and that is the end of the matter with the GoI on the integration and sovereignty issue.
Now, Nagaland state is completely outside of the political talk of the GoI-IM Peace Accord of 3rd August 2015. It is not understood why and how the politicians of Nagaland poke their fingers on an issue completely out of the state’s political context.
Keep the ‘Pan Naga Hoho Authority’ and the ‘Shared Sovereignty’ safely in the museum for some time!
We will make our own laws ourselves and govern us Nagaland ourselves.
Thepfulhouvi Solo. IFS Retd (RR-68)
angami_t@yahoo.co.in
