DAN meets with factions
Dimapur | June 2 : In a significant new development since the stalled People’s consultative Forum effort, the Political Affairs Committee of the DAN government has reportedly met with top leaders of the NSCN (IM) and “NSCN/GPRN” while similar meetings with the NNC and FGN have been set to schedule. The PAC informed to have met with leaders of both the aforementioned groups only last month, May.
Mention may be made here that in April, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland government had assured to chart what was stated to be this time a “tangible” plan of action to address and complement reconciliation of the warring Naga resistance groups. Discussions to this affect were engaged April 4 during the joint meeting of the Political Affairs Committee and the state Cabinet, in Kohima.
Considered a ‘preliminary’ step to bring the warring factions to dialogue and ‘reconciliation,’ the PAC also informed to have scheduled a meeting with the Naga National Council (NNC) on June 3, Tuesday. These meetings are the ‘first step’ forming a part of the DAN committee’s plan of action as resolved during the April 4 PAC meeting. This initial phase of meeting with the resistance groups also complements meeting with Naga civil society. It was informed that the Naga Hoho has been met with by the PAC recently.
Naga civil society shall be met with soon, to complement the consultative process as envisaged earlier in the PAC’s plan of action. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), the Naga Mothers’ Association and the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, the Nagaland GBs’ and DBs’ joint forum, the Eastern Naga Peoples’ Organization and Sumi Hoho were some of the organizations that the PAC said would be meeting in the latter phase. Consultations in phases shall be had with all sections of the Naga civil society, it was informed.
Chairman of the PAC, Dr. TM Lotha said the committee had been in constant touch with all the Naga frontals, in concern, as well as the Naga factions. He said the government is ‘trying’ to ‘contact’ frontal civil organizations while the NSCN (IM) and the “NSCN/GPRN” have been met with, separately. Dr. Lotha refused to divulge matters of consultative interest and discussions that the PAC had with the factions’ leaders. He, however, implied that the meetings were only preliminary in nature without any specific points for deliberations. More such consultations are expected. The former Health Minister said the current engagement with civil society and the factions were “just to get their opinion,” implying it to be groundwork to facilitate further consultative, and more concrete discourses toward the envisaged ‘reconciliation’ of the warring Naga resistance groups.
Dr. Lotha also said that the Naga people need to step forward for dialogue. This imperative is not only for the Naga groups but for the entire Naga spectrum, as a people and society to hammer out issues at the table and not through antagonism and hostile one-upmanship. Additional sources also said that the disturbing issue of factional clashes and civilian casualties were discussed with the factions’ leaders. However, specifics of these reported meetings, by and large, could not be made available by those in concern.
Also, president-elect of the Naga Hoho Keviletuo Kiewhuo said that the PAC had been in meeting with the Naga apex recently. While no discussions on specific terms were undertaken, it was made tacit that a joint meeting would be convened by the Naga Hoho with the committee before long. He said that consultations and meetings in the line of the PAC would continue.
In April this year the DAN PAC had informed to have featured a plan in its resolution to reactivate the DAN’s hitherto stalled People’s Consultative Forum which gone defunct during the alliance’s last stint. This “tangible” plan of action that the DAN Cabinet had in mind through the all-important Political Affairs Committee had included instating subcommittees within the PAC itself. Complementing the sub-committees would be civil forums and organizations with representatives who are expected to play the role of initiators and facilitators.
Senior DAN minister Dr. Shurhozelie had also in April assured greater and intensified efforts toward ushering in reconciliation of the Naga groups. “Without reconciliation, unity has no meaning” he had emphasized repeating the Dr. TM Lotha’s earlier contention that reconciliation should precede solution. Dr. Shurhozelie had added that the responsibility to ushering in healing is for all, “including the Congress party” and not just state-instated bodies like the PAC or even the government itself.
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Mention may be made here that in April, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland government had assured to chart what was stated to be this time a “tangible” plan of action to address and complement reconciliation of the warring Naga resistance groups. Discussions to this affect were engaged April 4 during the joint meeting of the Political Affairs Committee and the state Cabinet, in Kohima.
Considered a ‘preliminary’ step to bring the warring factions to dialogue and ‘reconciliation,’ the PAC also informed to have scheduled a meeting with the Naga National Council (NNC) on June 3, Tuesday. These meetings are the ‘first step’ forming a part of the DAN committee’s plan of action as resolved during the April 4 PAC meeting. This initial phase of meeting with the resistance groups also complements meeting with Naga civil society. It was informed that the Naga Hoho has been met with by the PAC recently.
Naga civil society shall be met with soon, to complement the consultative process as envisaged earlier in the PAC’s plan of action. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), the Naga Mothers’ Association and the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, the Nagaland GBs’ and DBs’ joint forum, the Eastern Naga Peoples’ Organization and Sumi Hoho were some of the organizations that the PAC said would be meeting in the latter phase. Consultations in phases shall be had with all sections of the Naga civil society, it was informed.
Chairman of the PAC, Dr. TM Lotha said the committee had been in constant touch with all the Naga frontals, in concern, as well as the Naga factions. He said the government is ‘trying’ to ‘contact’ frontal civil organizations while the NSCN (IM) and the “NSCN/GPRN” have been met with, separately. Dr. Lotha refused to divulge matters of consultative interest and discussions that the PAC had with the factions’ leaders. He, however, implied that the meetings were only preliminary in nature without any specific points for deliberations. More such consultations are expected. The former Health Minister said the current engagement with civil society and the factions were “just to get their opinion,” implying it to be groundwork to facilitate further consultative, and more concrete discourses toward the envisaged ‘reconciliation’ of the warring Naga resistance groups.
Dr. Lotha also said that the Naga people need to step forward for dialogue. This imperative is not only for the Naga groups but for the entire Naga spectrum, as a people and society to hammer out issues at the table and not through antagonism and hostile one-upmanship. Additional sources also said that the disturbing issue of factional clashes and civilian casualties were discussed with the factions’ leaders. However, specifics of these reported meetings, by and large, could not be made available by those in concern.
Also, president-elect of the Naga Hoho Keviletuo Kiewhuo said that the PAC had been in meeting with the Naga apex recently. While no discussions on specific terms were undertaken, it was made tacit that a joint meeting would be convened by the Naga Hoho with the committee before long. He said that consultations and meetings in the line of the PAC would continue.
In April this year the DAN PAC had informed to have featured a plan in its resolution to reactivate the DAN’s hitherto stalled People’s Consultative Forum which gone defunct during the alliance’s last stint. This “tangible” plan of action that the DAN Cabinet had in mind through the all-important Political Affairs Committee had included instating subcommittees within the PAC itself. Complementing the sub-committees would be civil forums and organizations with representatives who are expected to play the role of initiators and facilitators.
Senior DAN minister Dr. Shurhozelie had also in April assured greater and intensified efforts toward ushering in reconciliation of the Naga groups. “Without reconciliation, unity has no meaning” he had emphasized repeating the Dr. TM Lotha’s earlier contention that reconciliation should precede solution. Dr. Shurhozelie had added that the responsibility to ushering in healing is for all, “including the Congress party” and not just state-instated bodies like the PAC or even the government itself.
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