Source: Oken Jeet Sandham / NEPS - http://www.nepsindia.com
Kohima, March 20:
The NNC (Panger) said that if the NSCN (IM) could bring sovereignty to the Naga people, then the outfit (NNC-P) would "warmly welcome and accept it." "But it they betray the Naga people, then they (NSCN-IM) alone will bear the bloods of the Naga martyrs and will be cursed and condemned for ever," declared NNC(P) President I Panger Walling in a message on the occasion of the Naga Republic Day on March 22.He said the organization had worked very hard for the last 20 years for the "Naga reconciliation and unity in the homeland for the best interest of the Nagas but in vein because of opposition from the NSCN (IM) and the Shillong Accord group (Adino Phizo Group)." Therefore, the NNC had left this agenda to the Naga people and the Naga supporters abroad for the fate of the Naga reconciliation, the NNC President stated.
Regretting on the double standard of the present "puppet Government" of Nagaland under the leadership of Neiphiu Rio with regard to the Naga reconciliation, Panger walling said they (Government) opposed the real reconciliation move.
They (Nagaland Government) professed equi-closeness to all Naga Nationalist parties but in reality, they were "liars because they have twice sabotaged the NNC meetings for reconciliation," the NNC President stated terming the State leaders and agency were the "real stumbling block" to the path of Naga sovereignty.
Stating that the NNC would not remain as silent spectators all the time when somebody "suffers for sovereignty and others enjoy at the cost of it," Panger walling cautioned that they would not allow the situation to continue for long at the "cost of Naga nationalism." "We all have to suffer or enjoy together if we are all Nagas," he asserted.