It is a Mission accomplished, the Government of Nagaland declared on Thursday while referring to the trip to the Capital New Delhi by the Nagaland delegation led by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, Cabinet Ministers, Speaker, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament, the Chief Secretary and the Subordinate officials.
The team was scheduled to meet with Union Minister Amit Shah and Interlocutor AK Mishra on 4 July, but the meeting with the former was deferred and later held on 5 July.
K G Kenye, Minister of Power and Parliamentary Affair and also the spokesperson of Government of Nagaland has mentioned that “air of all doubts and misconceptions” on the Frontier Naga Territory were cleared during the meetings with Shah and Mishra.
“It will hence forth be tripartite and include the state Government for all purposes and at every stage in the approach to find a detail and final tripartite Agreement,” he said on the ENPO negotiations which is on the “verge of conclusion and the stage for preparation of the Concept is on the anvil.”
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The press release also mentioned that the delegation had appraised the Union Minister on the “resentment and apprehensions surrounding the proposal for a Uniform Civil Code” to which the latter “in no uncertain terms assured the Delegation that the Centre is actively considering for Exemption of Christians and some Tribal Areas from the purview of the 22nd Law Commissions Exercise.”
Further, the delegation requested for the earliest settlement of the Naga Political Dialogue, Kenye stated. The team also urged Centre “not to make this a bottle neck for Developmental works in the State”, to which Shah assured that “all major proposals of the PDA Government pending with the Centre would be cleared very soon.”
Nagaland CM, Ministers, Speaker, MPs meet AK Mishra over FNT; meeting with Shah deferred
