At no point of time did the WC, NNPGs, officially or otherwise, expressed a notion or a desire to be a part of any agreement where NSCN IM was a party to. There is a term going around called a “Common Draft” for convergence of all stakeholders. Let it be known that it is the initiative of the Government of India (GoI) for an inclusive Naga solution. The WC,NNPGs have acknowledged it in principle, provided the draft do not disturb the core fabric of AGREED POSITION of 17th November 2017 as it is the only historical Agreement which distinctly pinpoints the Nagas’ right to self-determine their future, while respecting contemporary political realities.
Due appreciation must go to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) for the following Reconciliatory Agreements among Naga groups:
1.COVENANT OF RECONCILIATION-13th June 2009
2. NAGA CONCORDANT- 26th August 2011.
3. LENTEN AGREEMENT-28th March 2014.
Unfortunately, the NSCN-IM leadership utilised these agreements only to reflect legitimacy and impress New Delhi. The GoI acted in haste too as NSCN-IM delegation flew to Delhi without a single stakeholder from the FNR, Apex Tribal bodies, the Church or civil society groups, and signed the infamous FA on 03rd August 2015. The rest, they say, is history.
There was absolutely no consultation with the Naga tribes prior to signing the document. The moral and emotional consent and approval of the Naga Tribes never pricked their conscience. Even today, Nagas are not privy to their real political conversation. For this very reason the Indigenous Nagas, the ancestral entities do not consider FA as genuinely theirs. Consider the word ‘NAGALIM’, it is a utopian term, irrelevant and non-existent in the Naga history pages, no wonder ‘NAGALAND’ and not NAGALIM was used in the FA headline!
Today, all these FNR guided agreements lay in tatters. Skeletons are protruding from the ground as to why the Framework Agreement (FA) has become a secret agenda incapable of standing scrutiny before the Naga people. From the very beginning it was designed as an exclusive closed-door subject of select few within NSCN (IM) set-up. The very idea of inclusive Naga political solution is an anathema to them.
Naga people have decoded the FA minutely.
The real motive over NSCN IM’s Flag and Constitution is this: It is more of an insurance policy, an emotional tool to continue transferring Nagaland’s wealth to acquire assets in Ukhrul and elsewhere. A bargaining chip for constitutional guarantee as part of political solution. To transfer Intangki reserve forest stretch and surrounding areas, create a township for Nagas from Manipur only. They plan to administer the area by senior Tangkhul members welding political and administrative power through new political arrangement. This layer of political discourse cannot be disclosed even to their very own civil and military workers from Nagaland state, let alone put out in the public domain.
With such elaborate future plan in the closet, the NSCN IM leadership have every reason to accuse WC, NNPGs and AGREED POSITION as dangerous. Recently NSCN-IM Chairman was made to sign and issue a press statement. Rightly said, Agreed Position and FA are poles apart in that the Agreed Position brought out a blueprint for future relationship between the Government of India and Nagas while the FA remains an undeclared document fully aware Nagas will not accept it inner details. Individual plans cannot be a part of inclusive Naga plan. Those who think for themselves cannot think for the future generation Nagas.
GOI has conveyed to IM leadership that the INTANGKI reserve forest belongs to the Naga people and GoI cannot transfer to NSCN IM members from Manipur in any manner under the shadow of Pan Naga Hoho (PNH). WC, NNPGs foresaw this plan, pointed out during negotiations and reaffirmed that under no circumstances should the INTANGKI RESERVE FOREST be disturbed post solution. WC, NNPGs corrected the wrongs of FA. Therefore, it is absolutely clear that NSCN IM is NOT FOR SOLUTION! Not for NAGA FLAG, not for NAGA CONSTITUTION, not for NAGA INTEGRATION. They are for INTANGKI RESERVE FOREST, to control Nagaland, Manipur and Assam corridor! The rhetoric against the GOI with sentimental issues and the backtracking from numerous FNR guided reconciliatory declarations and resolutions have calculated reasons.
Nagas want early honorable and acceptable political solution and WC, NNPGs have negotiated a clear roadmap in line with the desire of the Naga people. GoI says they are preparing a “COMMON DRAFT” from both FA and AP. Now NSCN-IM says it is dangerous to work or sit together with NNPGs. Simply put, they are against the Naga people and want to sabotage Naga solution. It is clearly visible that Naga solution will jeopardize their (NSCN-IM) secret plan. Logically, NSCN IM is blackmailing both the Naga people and the GoI.
Naturally, WC, NNPGs had to correct the political blunders committed by FA authors. NNPG entities went to the Naga people and sought what they want from the Government of India, the Indigenous Tribes in Nagaland, Indigenous Naga tribes in Manipur, Indigenous Naga tribes In Arunachal, Indigenous Nagas in Assam are now a politically conscious Naga brethren and are privy to the contours of AGREED POSITION. The negotiated Status Paper is with the Apex Naga tribal Hohos, village headmen, elected representatives, student bodies and church leaders in all Naga areas.
The existing states and international boundaries within Naga ancestral lands are legacies of the past and a part of contemporary political realities. During intensive negotiations, these Naga lands were primary subjects needing special political arrangements deserving tremendous political and administrative autonomy. The WC, NNPGs put pen to paper and entrenched Naga history and identity. To the GoI, it is either the voice of the Naga people or the noise of the few.
Media Cell
WC, NNPGs
Date: 10/08/2025
