All Sumi Students Union (SKK) has accepted the apology from the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) over the HSLC toppers felicitation programme organised by the NSF on July 8, 2017 coinciding with the Sumi Tuluni festival.
In a press release, SKK assembly speaker, Kawoto K Chishi, and sessional assembly secretary, Atoka Yeptho, said that SKK at its emergency union assembly held on July 12, 2017 thoroughly deliberated on issue.
The SKK noted that coinciding of felicitation programme with Tuluni festival not only amounted to utter failure on the part of the federation to uphold its core constitutional guiding principle to “preserve our cultures, customs and traditional heritages” enshrined in the permeable of the NSF constitution but also grievously hurt the sentiments of the Sumi community in particular. While duly acknowledging the “clarificatory apology” communicated by the federation on July 12, 2017 through local dailies, the SKK termed it as “a prudent approach” on the part of “a highly regarded intellectual body”.
SKK also “unequivocally” reaffirmed its earlier stand that the NSF uphold its constitution in letter and spirit by inculcating mutual respect for cultures and traditions of all the Naga tribes and facilitate “a healthy living environment for already disarrayed Naga family.”
Conveying its mutual acceptance of apology in good faith, the SKK strongly urged the federation to ensure that strong resolution be adopted to prevent similar social mishaps in future.
It asserted that unless NSF undertook such exercise, the SKK or any other federating unit would have the right to raise objection on the failure of the NSF.