The united Naga Council (UNC) said it was “devastated by the untimely move of eight Naga legislators” in Manipur submitting a representation to the Prime Minister of India along with 32 others simultaneously on the day of the “Naga Peoples Rally” on August 9, 2023, organised in the “Naga hill districts in the state of Manipur, negating the collective sentiments of the Naga populace”.
In a statement made available to Newmai News Network late Sunday, the UNC mentioned that the August 9 rally was organised under the aegis of the United Naga Council for exercising the Government of India’s political will to resolve the long drawn “Indo-Naga political conflict” in the true spirit of August 3, 2015, Framework Agreement between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM).
The statement then said that, whilst the Nagas are all out reiterating for an inclusive, acceptable and honourable solution to the Indo-Naga political issue, submitting a representation with some “contradictory demands” to the Prime Minister of India is highly uncalled for.
Therefore, the UNC, as the apex body representing 20 Naga tribes in the state Manipur, said it “feels necessitated to place on record that the Naga legislators who have appended their signatures in that representation do not carry the collective aspirations and sentiments of the Nagas and hence disowned their representation”.
