AKK flays Gogoi’s statement

Aghunaqa Kukami Kuqhakulu (AKK), representing 38 villages under Niuland-sub division, Dimapur, has condemned the statement of Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi, which appeared in local dailies on September 19 apprising the Union Home Minister to withdraw the Nagaland Arm Police (NAP) stationed at Assam-Nagaland border belt and demanding the SSB in the border area as “neutral force”.
AKK press release issued by its president, Mughavi Awomi, and the general secretary, Hetoi Katty, stated that since the inception of an agreement between the two states in the year 1972, 1979 and subsequent MoU signed between the two state chief ministers in 1985 with regard to the border dispute, the Assam government had never obliged to the said agreement but allegedly deployed more Assam Arm Police (AAP) at the border area even after signing the said agreement. AKK said this could be substantiated as living witnesses by the people living under dispute belt at Sector ABC where many AAP outpost were created after the agreement.
AKK also stated that the Nagaland government, while obliging the agreement in “letter and spirit,” had withdrawn all its armed forces within the disputed area paving way for peaceful co-existence in the border area. It also stated that the recently conflict was not about the border issue between  the two state but an issue between the tenants and the land owner further adding that the Adivasi had occupied Nagas’ land which resulted in mass evacuation at Naga’s land which was allegedly occupied through “forceful means”.
AKK in their statement also said that the chief minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi, had mentioned that due to the presence of NAP stationed at the conflict area, the displaced Assamese could not return to their villages. AKK said, it was not the Assamese who were displaced but the Adivasi who were evacuated from the Naga’s land.
It said Nagas had always maintained good relationship with the Assamese keeping in mind the old age relationship between Ahom and the Nagas. It also lamented that due to some few vested interest “politicians of Assam,” communal clashes occurs frequently between the two states in the border.
In the light of the above stated circumstances, AKK has urged upon the State government not to withdraw NAP from the conflict area till the Assam government withdraw all arm police from the dispute area to maintain equilibrium.