ENPO holds public rally in six districts demanding separate state

Mokokchung, August 9 (MTNews): The seven tribes under the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) on Tuesday held a public rally in six of their respective district headquarters to demand the creation of a separate state of ‘Frontier Nagaland’.

The rallies held in Tuensang, Mon, Kiphire, Longleng, Noklak and Shamtor concluded with the tribes submitting a report on the democratic public rally addressed to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi through the respective Deputy Commissioners.

The public rally which started at around 10 am in all tribal headquarters “went fine,” ENPO President Tsapikiu Sangtam told Mokokchung Times, adding that the rally ended peacefully.

Sangtam said that the report will serve as a reminder and he hoped that either the Union Home Minister or the Prime Minister would intervene.

According to an AIR report, the ENPO has asserted to continue to wholeheartedly pursue the demand for separate State at all cost until it is attained. They said the demand is based on popular grassroot resolution and mandate encompassing every village council and tribal councils of Eastern Nagaland.

The six districts under ENPO have 20 legislators in the 60-member Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

The ENPO has requested the Prime Minister for taking the issue based on the then BJP National President Nitin Gadkari’s assurance that BJP would carve out a separate Frontier Nagaland if BJP comes to power in Lok Sabha election in 2014. (With AIR Inputs)