DIMAPUR: The Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) Sunday said the recent split in the erstwhile Khaplang faction of the NSCN is a setback and that unless the “trend is reversed” the future seems even bleaker for the Nagas.
The Working Committee of the NPF met on July 1 in Kohima.
The party discussed on the recent division that took place within the erstwhile GPRN/NSCN (K) group. The NPF said the “unfortunate turn of event” has surprised the Naga people. (Agency)
Naga groups urged to be vigilant
DIMAPUR: The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) has stated that it “highly appreciated as timely” and also termed as “encouraging” the recent press communiqués issued by the GPRN/NSCN and the NSCN (Khaplang) in the local newspapers of their continual support to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation and their expressed commitment to the “Covenant of Reconciliation” which was signed on June 13, 2009 by three Naga political groups and subsequently reaffirmed on September 18, 2010.(Agency)
FNR encouraged by commitment to ‘Covenant of Reconciliation’
The FNR in a press note restated that it will “remain impartial towards all Naga political groups and will work until genuine reconciliation on the basis of the historical and political rights among the Nagas is achieved”. “The Covenant of Reconciliation being a commitment made before God and the Naga people must be upheld unreservedly by the signatories”, stated the FNR while expressing “its deep appreciation for the re-assurances it has received from the signatories of the COR in the backdrop of the present prevailing disturbances”.
“It is therefore only pertinent and realistic that all groups remain consistently vigilant as of now so that no internal and external force is allowed to take undue advantage of the Covenant of Reconciliation”, stated the press note. While admitting that “differences and difficulties remain within the Naga family”, the FNR appealed to the Naga political groups “to maintain status quo to the Covenant of Reconciliation and render all support to the Naga Reconciliation: A Journey of Common Hope, which is the “prayer” and general will of the Naga people.
YTC meet resolves on taxation
DIMAPUR: The Yimchungru Tribal Council (YTC) the Apex body of the Yimchungru community, during its emergency meeting on Sunday on the current impasse of GPRN/NSCN, has resolved not to give taxation to both the parties of GPRN/NSCN till further order, “unless they made clearance as one faction”. “If any individuals or group of both the parties of GPRN/NSCN violate this resolution, the Yimchungru Tribal Council shall start non- co-operation and stringent action shall initiate against the particular groups and individuals”, stated a press note received here. The Yimchungru Tribal Council has notified that this order will monitor with effect from the date of publication. (Agencies)
Guardians seek academy affiliation
IMPHAL: The National Sports Academy Students’ Guardian Association has appealed to youth affairs and sports minister D.D. Thaisii to expedite the affiliation of the academy to the CBSE.The guardians said at present the National Sports Academy is following the CBSE pattern by attaching itself to other affiliated schools.The guardians, in a memorandum to the sports minister, also appealed to shift the IRB post located near the academy at Khuman Lampak sports complex. Youth affairs and sports director S. Jayanta Singh, who is also a member secretary of the academy’s management committee, said all infrastructure related to the National Sports Academy was almost complete, including separate boys and girls’ hostels and an indoor hall.He added that the newly built indoor hall is a multi discipline one.
“We have already completed formalities for equipment and installation of the same will be completed within this month,” he said.S. Jayanta Singh added that the sole aim of the academy, which was set up in July 2007, is to shape, groom, train and educate its students and produce world class athletes for Vision Olympics.Several of our students are performing quite well in the national arena and bagging medals, he added.The NSA currently offers six sporting disciplines, including archery, boxing, judo, taekwondo, wrestling and weightlifting. (Agencies)
Seniorscribe dead
AIZAWL: Senior journalist Darshan Balwally, a former PTI correspondent, died here today after a prolonged heart problem. Balwally was 56 and is survived by his wife Rosemary Z Darshan and two sons. He joined PTI in Aizawl as bureau chief in 1988, then joined the Hindustan Times as a special correspondent and afterwards worked in other newspaper organisations and also as a freelancer. (PTI)