Alongside the ongoing protest of the CTAN & NNQF which entered the fifth day, the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) also began its agitation today following the expiration of the seven days ultimatum served to the State Government on April 22, 2025, to revoke the 17 December 2024 order of regularising 147 Assistant professors and librarians.

The NSF and its federating units along with college students joined the protest where a short program was held at the NSF Oking, Naga Solidarity Park, Kohima, to initiate the first phase of the agitation.

During the program, NSF President Medovi Rhi stated that they stand united because fairness is not negotiable.  “When the opportunity of hard working students have been denied, it is not a personal injustice but attack on meritocracy,” said the President. Reminding the students on the injustice meted out on aspirants, Rhi highlighted that compassion cannot cure constitutional infirmity. He also highlighted the rights of citizens such as Article 14 which rejects favoritism, Article 16 which demands fairness and Article 309 permits order not for any short cuts.

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“No authority, not even cabinet can override the fundamental rights. We seek not favour but demand what is rightfully ours,” he expressed.

Following the brief program, the agitators marched towards the Directorate of Higher Education where representatives from the NSF held a meeting with officials of the department.

The situation outside the Directorate briefly escalated when the agitators resorted to enter the office however it was brought under control with the intervention of security forces.

The agitation came to a close today with the burning of an effigy which the NSF announced as a symbolic “end to corruption”.