Mokokchung, 9 August (MTNews): Responding to the call of the United Naga Council, on 9 August 2023, thousands took to streets in Manipur districts of Ukhrul, Senapati, Tamenglong and Chandel asking for the Naga Political Solution to be resolved.
The Nagas demanded that the Indo-Naga political issue be based on the Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) on 3 August 2015.
The United Naga Council through the Deputy Commissioner Senapati District, Manipur also submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister reiterating their demand for an acceptable and honorable solution to the Indo-Naga political issue “in the true spirit of the historic Indo-Naga Framework Agreement of 3 August, 2015 at New Delhi.”
Stating that eight years has been passed since the signing of the FA, the UNC acknowledged that it has run into a “stalemate on interpretation and accommodation of the principal issues of flag and constitution” which has been envisaged and implied in the Framework Agreement.
The UNC, therefore, called upon the GOI to honour the Framework Agreement in letter and spirit by accepting “the universal fact that Sovereignty lies with people and by extension, that the Naga National flag and Constitution must be an integral part of the shared sovereignty.”
The UNC further reiterated that Naga people will not accept disintegration of Naga land or any act that will adversely affect the interest of the Naga people while attempting to address demands of “any other community.”
“We can only state that such misadventures will have serious ramifications that will provoke further senseless violence with different communities,” the UNC stated.
However, they made it clear that “any other community living in the Naga ancestral homeland will not be left out of the final settlement” in consonance with the mutually agreed upon competencies.