Source: The Sangai Express / PTI
New Delhi, December 18:
After a gap of two years, top NSCN (I-M) leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah are arriving here on December 20 and are likely to hold talks with the Central leadership to carry forward efforts for a peaceful solution to the Naga insurgency issue.
Swu and Muivah, who had last visited India in December 2004 and held talks with Vajapayee government leaders, are coming barely days after they had held dialogue with the Group of Ministers led by Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes in Amsterdam.
Though it was not immediately clear with who all the NSCN leaders would meet, sources in the Government said they would try and iron out the differences with the Centre on key issues, including the sovereignty demand under which the NSCN-IM has proposed a federal relationship with Indian Union.
The delegation is expected to continue its discussion with the central leaders over the limits of flexibility within the Constitution and whether a "sub-national constitution" could be accommodated within it.
The two leaders were also expected to visit Nagaland for Christmas celeberations besides addressing the issue of recent clashes between the cadres of NSCN-IM and its rival NSCN (Khaplang), which resulted in the death of several people in the recent past.
The two leaders may also review progress made since the NSCN-IM submitted a 20-point charter of demands to the Centre.
In this charter, the NSCN-IM has sought unification of all Naga-inhabited areas of the north east, an issue opposed by Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, separate representation at the UN and greater rights over natural resources, finance, defence and policing.