Staff Reporter
A delegation of the Parliamentary Core Committee on Naga Political Issue led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio landed at Delhi Monday evening to meet Central leaders including Union Home minister Amit Shah to apprise them of the Naga political issue.
On Monday, Rio accompanied by UDA chairman TR Zeliang, minister Neiba Kronu and advisor Phukayi Sumi left for Delhi, while deputy CM Y. Patton, who has been camping in Delhi for over a week, will join the team.
On the other hand, ministers S. Pangnyu Phom and Kashiho Sangtam and advisor Kazheto Kinimi left for Delhi on Sunday. Sources said that more legislators were likely to join team in Delhi.
With the assembly elections scheduled to be held in the early part of next year, sources said that there has been an urgency to resolve the decades old Naga political issue at the earliest.
Though the Centre was serious to resolve the vexed Naga political issue, both the Centre and NSCN (I-M) were yet to find the middle path to break the deadlock over the latter’s demand for Naga national flag and constitution.
With Centre unwilling to accept the demands for a separate flag and constitution, NSCN (I-M) has affirmed time and again that any solution without a separate flag and constitution for the Nagas was not acceptable.