Reacting to the statement made by union minister of state for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju in the Lok Sabha on May 5 that— “…NSCN (K) with its Myanmar based leadership is mainly interested in extortion & has nothing to do with Naga issues”— NSCN(K) said that the “mindset of opportunist leader like Kiren Rijju is responsible for exacerbating the crisis further”.
NSCN (K) MIP in a press release said that when prominent Indian political leaders from late MK Gandhi and every successive Indian Prime Ministers had adopted highest political standards to resolve Naga political issue, “the arrogant posture of Kiren Rijju is not only insensitive and immature but exposes his own ignorance of the history of independent Naga republics as ancient as any other ancient Indian civilisation”.
Stating that the opportune utterances of Rijju, “an ethnic Arunachali allocated with Minister of State for Home affairs is well within his sworn obligation to defend Indian constitution and can never be taken into serious consideration since his pre-mediated position demands unflinching denial of his own ethnicity and other suppressed ethnic races of the region”.
Further, NSCN (K) MIP said it was unfortunate that a person of esteemed responsibility expected to be solution oriented has to negate the virtues and aggravate the issue beyond redemption.
MIP said: “For the record, the NSCN/GPRN unmindful of Rijju’s statement shall pursue the Naga cause with everything in its power and as long as it takes be it in God’s own time.”
It may be mentioned that Rijiju had made the statement in a written reply to Dr. Thokchom Meinya in the Lok Sabha.
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