Dimapur, Oct. 28 (EMN): The working committee of Naga National Political Groups has refuted claims and allegations that it has forfeited the demand for Naga flag and constitution from the government of India.
In a statement issued on Monday, the committee maintained that “it is too premature” to denounce the ‘agreed position’ it had signed with New Delhi, “on mere scepticism”.
“To brand the WC of NNPGs as having forfeited the demands for flag or constitution is bereft of truth when even the door for sovereignty and integration has not been sealed or culminated beyond redemption but to be pursued through peaceful, democratic approaches,” read the statement.
It stated that the “rainbow flag embossed below with David's star had been in sacred utility since the dawn of Naga struggle” and no group or entity will “emasculate” it either before or post-solution.
“It shall rather be the democratic and popularly elected ‘tatar hoho’ and ‘leacy hoho’, as elected and empowered by the Naga people, to legislate and legitimise its usage in whatever manner as may deem fit post-solution,” it stated.
On Naga constitution/ ‘yehzabo’, the committee maintained that since the emergence of a semblance of local-self governance as thriving miniature republics in all Naga villages, independently or co-independently, Nagas have, by and large, practiced conventions based on hereditary, customary and traditional ethos.
“There had never been any written or codified system of law, order or administration of justice hitherto except for the modem courts post-British-India era, however in cases involving Naga traditional and customary conflicts even the state/regional high courts or the Indian supreme court, the cases are usually referred back to the customary local courts for final adjudication.
“However, should the modern circumstances so necessitates, the best Naga minds can broaden their intellect and with combined wisdom and expertise drawn from every tribe and community codify the law and put up for legislation by the ‘tatar’ and ‘leacy hoho(s)’ as in consonance with the realities of the times,” read the statement.
