Dimapur, Jul 20, 2022, By Agencies

Dimapur July 20:The NSCN-IM has said there is no documentary evidence appended by the government of India’s representative and the Naga political groups that talks had been concluded.

It said had the Indo-Naga political talks been concluded on October 31, 2019, as repeatedly mentioned by the Parliamentary Committee on the Naga Political Issue (PCoNPI), a joint statement should have been the norm and not a unilateral statement by former interlocutor and former Nagaland governor RN Ravi.

“Even the NSCN could have taken the pleasure to share with the Naga people with much jubilation. Ironically, this is not the case. Ravi may have concluded the talks with NNPGs. But that is not the story with NSCN,” the outfit said in a statement.

The outfit said it finds no fault with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking the extra pride in solving the Naga political issue, but the non-action plan on competency had made the Framework Agreement a non-starter.

“This is the crux of the delay in Naga political solution,” it said.

Saying that Ravi used strong words against the NSCN talk team to conclude the talk by October 31, 2019, the statement said it was in fact an ugly ultimatum day served to the NSCN by the government of India with threats and warfare psychosis.

However, the NSCN was unnerved and stood their ground and flatly refused to toe the line of Naga solution as drawn by Ravi, it added.

The NSCN also alleged that Ravi miserably failed to work out the competency as per the principle of the Framework Agreement.