‘Politics by gun’ has undermined efforts to resolve Naga issue, says R.N. Ravi
Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi on Tuesday said “unrealistic intransigence of some people, who are unwilling to forsake the politics by gun”, has undermined the Centre’s political initiatives to resolve the Naga issue in the last 24 years.
Mr. Ravi, also the Centre’s interlocutor for the Naga peace talks, said in his Republic Day speech that the people of Nagaland have not been able to reap optimum benefit of various progressive government schemes as “some extra constitutional entities in the guise of espousing the Naga national cause” have kept peace and progress at bay.
The Governor did not name the entities but made it apparent he was referring to the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland with which he has been engaged in a war of words since June 2020.
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