Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, November 02:
As part of its ongoing endeavour to achieve the goal of Greater Nagaland with political impetus, the United Naga Council has indicated that the Naga civil society will lend support to those candidates in the forthcoming Assembly polls who would work for the naga cause with full conviction.
The UNC and its constituent bodies - ANSAM, NPMHR, Naga Mothers� Association and presidents of Naga tribes - have already begun mobilising the people in all naga dominated areas on the issue.
�Our idea on the mobilisation is to convince the whole Naga population and support the most dynamic candidates, who are committed to the cause of the Nagas,� UNC general secretary Azang Longmai told The Sangai Express today.
The endeavour is in consonance with the UNC resolution of August 3 wherein Naga candidates had been instructed against contesting the forthcoming Assembly elections under any National political parties, he reminded while adding that the decision has already been intimated to all the 11 sitting Naga MLAs.
On being asked if any new political outfit would be floated to provide a platform for the �proposed people�s candidates� he said the matter would be considered while clarifying that UNC has nothing to do with regional political entities.
Informing that formal mobilisation activities had begun since yesterday, Azang further claimed that the endeavour has started to win the support of the people.
He also reminded that non-cooperation movement launched against the Manipur Government is still in force in all Naga inhabited areas of the State.
It may be mentioned that a verbal spat had erupted between the Congress MLA RK Theko and UNC when a newspaper quoted the former as saying that NSCN (IM) is attempting to wipe out the Congress organisation from Naga areas through the UNC.
Apart from rubbishing the MLA contention, UNC had dubbed RK Theko�s reported comments as �mere illusion and without foundation�.