Nagas want early solution
Mon | April 7 : Both the Centre and Nagaland government seem committed to finding an honourable settlement to the protracted Naga political problem. “Everybody desires that settlement must come as early as possible. Settlement should be honourable and acceptable to all sections,” said Interlocutor of the ongoing peace talks between the Centre and NSCN and former Nagaland chief secretary, RS Pandey, on Wednesday.
Pandey, a special guest at the Mon Road Show-Aoleang festival here in Mon town said “permanent peace” has eluded Nagaland for more than six decades. It is now high time to hammer out ways and means to bring lasting peace in the state, he said. Pandey was of the opinion that the Naga people should no longer dwell on the past but take the past as a guide for future prospects.
Pandey, who also served as Deputy Commissioner of Mon district in the eighties, said that although India is poised to become a superpower in the next two decades, it cannot boast of being a developed country if interior pockets like Mon district lags behind in development
Acknowledging Pandey’s desire to see an early solution to the Naga problem, Governor Nikhil Kumar said in his address that the people of Nagaland desire to settle down in a state of peace, progress and stability. Chief minister Neiphiu Rio also said that the “need of the hour is for Nagas to unite, come together and bring political solution,” to the Naga political issue.
Meanwhile, according to sources, the ongoing talks between the Government of India and NSCN (I-M) are likely to resume this month.