Members of Naga Club held a Foundation Day program at MC Hall, Red Cross Building Kohima on December 7.
According to Kuzhovesa Soho of the Naga Club publicity cell, speaking on the occasion, Naga Club president, Kruorovi Peseyie asserted that the most important and historic deed of the Naga Club was submission of the first Naga Political Memorandum to the British Statutory Commission led by John Simon M.P on January 10, 1929 which has become the Magna Carta of the Nagas.
Peseyie claimed that some writers of the North East consider the Memorandum of 1929 as one of the rarest Memorandums.
He said, Nagas were perhaps less civilised than others in those days, but because of their innocence and humility, God helped them. Emphasizing on the present stand of the Naga Club, Peseyie said that the club shall stand for truth and honesty by functioning in compassion and benevolence and always standing for rights and what is good.
He warned that the true history and records of the Naga Club should never be supplanted by individual statements of imagination without them being based on reliable evidence.
Narrating the history of the club, Peseyie said, Hisale Angami (Rheichalie Pienyü) became the first chairman of Naga Club (1918 to 1942), and Krusiehu Belho became the second president from 1942 to 1964.
These Naga leaders never joined the Naga Labour Corps who went to France in 1917 stated Peseyie. Dwelling on the formation of the club, he said, Naga Club was founded by some clerks and interpreters who were serving the office of the Deputy Commissioner Naga Hills, Kohima, with some ex-soldiers, contractors and village elders.
The function was chaired by Naga Club general secretary, KN Mhonthung, Rev. Dr. K. Benry Lotha, pastor, Kohima Lotha Baptist Church read a Bible passage and invoked God’s blessings.
Others who spoke on the occasion included, club treasurer Vixepu Swu, Jonas Yanthan, and Robert Solo. The function ended with a mass prayer.