The Speaker of the Lok Sabha has allowed for the issue of the Frontier Nagaland Territory of the Eastern Naga People’s Organisation to be raised in the House for discussion, the Communications Department of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee has said in a press release.

NPCC informed that Member of Lok Sabha from Nagaland, S Supongmeren Jamir had submitted two unstarred questions in relation to the two agreements signed between the Government of India and Naga Political Groups, and the other in relation to the FNT issue, however, the questions were disallowed by the Speaker “on the grounds that the information sought under the questions were secret in nature and were in contravention of Rule 41(2) (xxi) of the ‘Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha’.

In response to subsequent requests by the MP, the Speaker has later allowed the issue of the Frontier Nagaland Territory to be raised in the Lok Sabha for discussion under Rule 377 of the same Rules of Procedures and Conduct, it informed.

Further, NPCC also informed that on Friday, Jamir had called on Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, at latter’s office chambers in the Parliament and apprised him of these two issues along with an update of his recent efforts to raise the issues in the Lok Sabha.