Against the backdrop of general expectation of an impending settlement to the Naga political issue, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), held a meeting to deliberate on the matter at its extended executive committee meeting on October 29.
According to chairman communication department of NPCC, the party observed that the Naga political settlement had taken a paradigm shift-earlier from historical aspiration of sovereignty and integration of all contiguous Naga inhabited areas, to now, threatening Nagaland state with infiltration and division. NPCC reminded that Nagaland state was constituted as the 16th state of the Indian union on December 1,1963.
NPCC said the Framework Agreement (FA) signed on August 3,2015 at the PM’s residence “agreed to settle the political problem within union of India and that interstate boundaries shall not be changed”.
NPCC said this confirmed the claim and stand of the government of India, that “sovereignty and integration are non-negotiable.”
NPCC claimed there were enough hints on “carving out Territorial Council with Ntangki National Reserve Forest” and that the Nagaland Legislative Assembly resolution can be construed as “blank cheque approval to carve out Ntangki Territorial Council or otherwise.”