Lauding the Rongjali Bhwishagu festival organizing committee members, Commissioner of Police (CP), Dimapur, Limasunep Jamir, expressed pleasure to be part of the rich colourful festival, at two-day 2nd annual Rongjali Bhwishagu festival which culminated Saturday, at Urban Haat, Rajbari, Dimapur.
Speaking at the programme as inaugurator of the cultural procession programme starting from Urbaan Haat via Rajabari, Jamir pointed that the initiative and efforts taken to organize and celebrate such festival brought about oneness, and sense of brotherhood amongst the people.
Talking about the importance of identity, he said that community should learn to preserve and maintain one’s identity for the betterment of the upcoming generation to grow.
He also wished the community to grow progressively in the days to come and further looked forward for peaceful coexistence in the society.
Indigenous Minority Tribes of Nagaland (IMTN) interim president K. Lun Tungnung, in his speech, asked the community to unite and work together to protect the rights and privileges of the tribes within the state.
He asserted that wherever one may be the society includes minority, majority community thereby all should learn to live in unity.
“Community should learn work harder and struggle. And especially, youngsters should focus on education than only we can live in security”, he added.
He further asked the community to mark the festival, a day to encourage each other to live in harmony.
The programme highlighted cultural show which was marked open by Kachari Tribal Council Nagaland (KTCN) advisor Dhananjoy Basumatari.
Various traditional games, competition such as smashing earthen pot blind-folded, tug of war, batha gelenia and traditional dance performance by various cultural groups and singing by invited artists enthralled the gathering with their performances.
It may be mentioned that the festival was organized with the objective to mark the celebration of spring festival Rongjali Bwishagu and bring about harmonious relationship amongst all Kachari sub-tribes like Boro, Dimasa, Mech, Sonowal, Rabha, Garo etc. living in nearby areas and building mutual friendship, brotherhood, peace and harmony with people of Nagaland in particular and public in general living in the border areas of Assam-Nagaland through cultural exchange programme.