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Framework Agreement must be basis for Naga solution, says NSCN (IM) leader Raising
Published on Mar 21, 2025
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Raising speaking to the media on Friday- Slams Nagaland GB Federation for being ‘pro-Indian’
- DIMAPUR — Member of NSCN (IM) collective leadership, Rh Raising, on Friday maintained that any solution to the Indo-Naga issue should be based on the Framework Agreement, and the group will not accept any other option.
- Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the group’s 46th Republic Day celebration at CHQ/Hebron, Raising said that while unity and reconciliation are the lookout of all Nagas concerned, talks concerning solution have to be between the Naga representatives and the government of India.
- The NSCN (IM) leader said that the Nagaland GB Federation (NGBF) is pro-Indian and does not advocate for the cause of Nagas. He added that the NSCN (IM) had initially trusted the NGBF, but the latter has now deviated from its principle.
- Rasing was referring to the March 20 development in which the NGBF’s peace committee had spearheaded a consultative meeting of Naga bodies and called for, among others, integrating the Framework Agreement and the Agreed Position into a common document.
- He asserted that Naga people have given their mandate to solve the problem with the Centre, “so there has to be government of India and NSCN (IM) that represent the Naga people.”
- According to him, Nagas in different camps can unite; “there is no problem.” But the fact, he added, is that they are “issue-based people”, and their fight is also issue-based; therefore, their “negotiation is also issue-based, and solution has to be issue-based.”
- He mentioned that they welcome their brothers and can unite in the line of principle, “not in the line of Shillong Accord, not in the line of 16-Point Agreement, not in the line of any agreement that betrays the principle.”
- “We are mandated by the principle, go on fighting in the line of the principle and bring solution in the line of the principle. That's all. That is our assigned duty,” he maintained.
- The senior leader asserted that if solution is not issue-based, then it will be the repetition of the same mistake, vis-à-vis the 16-Point Agreement.
- He asserted that after the fall of NNC, the Naga National Hoho had mandated the NSCN (IM), and they have been upholding the banner till date without betraying the cause.
- When asked about the allegation that NSCN (IM) is delaying the solution, he responded that the same question was raised by the group of ministers led by the chief minister and said that there is no delayed solution.
- “There is no early solution, but solution has to be principle-based,” he said, adding that if the Centre is prepared to solve the problem on the basis of the Naga principle, then it can be done within a minute.
- When asked whether solution can be achieved after Nagas unite or if Nagas will be united only after achieving solution, Raising answered that “unity should be in the line of principle, and solution has to be in the line of principle, but unity first, solution next is nonsense.”
- “Solution is the rallying point; unity will never unite in the line of Indian Constitution. We'll never unite in the line of Burmese Constitution. We will unite only in the line of Naga Constitution,” he asserted.
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