NSCN (I-M) asserted that it will take the stand to defend Naga political issue at all cost. In a statement, NSCN (I-M) steering committee convenor, ‘maj.’ (retd) Hutovi Chishi went on to hit out at Interlocutor for Naga talks, R.N. Ravi saying “It will go down into the Indo-Naga history the vile attempt made by RN Ravi to pull the clock back of the over 70 years of Naga issue ever since Naga Independence was declared on August 14, 1947 and 23 years after 2nd Indo-Naga ceasefire and political talks.”
He said despite such “naked exposure of Ravi’s deceitful agenda, a few selfish Nagas allowed themselves to be carried away by his scheming tricks to destroy the Naga political issue by desperately trying to forced it into “law and order problem.”