The Office of the Ao Students’ Union Dimapur (ASUD) has strongly condemned the threats allegedly received by the Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) after it announced its intention to collect data of non-Nagas for Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Dimapur.

Extended unwavering support to DNSU’s initiative, ASUD asserted that any attempt to derail this process will be met with unflinching resistance. “We will go to any extent necessary, using all lawful means at our disposal, to defend and uphold the legitimate rights of the Naga people”, ASUD said.

This is not merely a bureaucratic exercise; it is a safeguard to our survival as a people in the face of potential demographic erosion, it added.

The Ao Students’ Union Dimapur also said that the ILP is not a “persecution drive” but a protective framework designed to maintain the delicate demographic balance of indigenous tribes in the North-Eastern region of India.

It stated that no Naga individual or organization of sound conscience and national pride will oppose DNSU’s initiative and that those who are against it are “nothing less than traitors or parasites–individuals who have forsaken their own people for selfish gains or ideological confusion.”

Further, ASUD cautioned that any “individual, group, or organization attempting to threaten, harass, or intimidate those engaged in this joint pursuit will face dire consequences and no stone will be left unturned in defending our rights and our people”.

The Union also called on all Naga tribes, units, and concerned citizens to come forward and stand united in this struggle. The ILP issue is a Naga cause of the highest order–it must be met with collective concern, unity, and sincerity, it stated.