HT Correspondent
DIMAPUR, May 16: NSCN (IM) chairman Q Tuccu on Friday urged the Nagas to take the pledge once again to stand by the Framework Agreement it signed with the Government of India on August 3, 2015, affirming that the pact was based on the historic declaration of Naga independence and Naga plebiscite.
Delivering his speech at the 75th Naga Plebiscite Day celebration at NSCN council headquarters at Camp Hebron, Tuccu said the historic Framework Agreement was signed, cognizant of the unique history of the Nagas that reveals the truth of Naga declaration of independence and Naga plebiscite, which reaffirmed the sovereign right of the Nagas to be independent nation.
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“There’s no going back to betray ourselves like falling off the cliff as devilishly planned by the government of India. Too many times the Government of India has played with the Naga issue in the name of agreement after agreement,” he said.
Tuccu said enough harm has been done to kill the rights of the Nagas by creating many groups to counterweight the NSCN, the only authentic group that has firmly spearheaded the Naga political movement after the “infamous Shillong Accord”.
He said: “We are no novice to the divisive politics planted by the Indian agency.”
Tuccu accused the Government of India of scheming a policy to destroy the Framework Agreement by placing it at the level of the Agreed Position of November 17, 2017. He said former interlocutor RN Ravi, representing the government of India, drafted the Agreed Position and made the working committee of the Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) sign it.
According to him, the NNPGS compromised the historical and political rights of the Nagas and agreed to accept the Indian Constitution-based Naga political solution.
“Anything that is deceitfully planned against the sanctity of the Framework Agreement is not acceptable to the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN),” Tuccu asserted.
He reaffirmed that the Naga political solution and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, cannot stay apart.
Tuccu said any attempt to seek solution diluting the Framework Agreement is not acceptable.
