{"id":128669,"date":"2015-08-13T01:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/08\/13\/cmo-terms-manipur-deputy-cms-remark-objectionable\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T01:26:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:26:34","slug":"cmo-terms-manipur-deputy-cms-remark-objectionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/13\/cmo-terms-manipur-deputy-cms-remark-objectionable\/","title":{"rendered":"CMO terms Manipur deputy  CM\u2019s remark objectionable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Chief Minister\u2019s Office (CMO) media cell in a rejoinder, has hit out at Manipur deputy chief minister, Gaikhangam\u2019s comment calling chief minister, T.R. Zeliang \u201ca liar\u201d. CMO in a press note termed it as \u201chighly objectionable and defamatory\u201d.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>CMO said, in a news item published in the print media, Gaikhangam had accused Zeliang of lying that \u201cother North Eastern states were consulted by the Centre over the Naga peace accord\u201d.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>It was a fact, CMO said justifying Zeliang\u2019s remark that the Interlocutor for Naga talks R.N. Ravi had consulted Manipur chief minister, Ibobi several times on matters of the Naga political settlement.<\/div>\n<div>CMO said Gaikhangam should have first asked Ibobi, whether he was consulted by Ravi on the issue, before &nbsp;making his accusation on Nagaland chief minister. It also reminded Gaikhangam that even the previous interlocutor, RS Pandey consulted Manipur chief minister on several occasions.<\/div>\n<div>The chief minister stands by his statement that the chief ministers of Manipur, Assam, Arunachal including himself was consulted by Ravi on finding a solution to the Naga issue, it added.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>However, CMO media cell clarified that Zeliang had not said that the CMs were consulted on specific contents, or on the signing of the accord on August 3, 2015.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cBut it must be stated here that the accord signed on August 3 was a result of the earlier consultations with the CMs of North Eastern States\u201d, CMO asserted.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>As a Naga leader himself, CMO said \u201cGaikhangam failed in his duty to stand for his people, when the Manipur government objected to extension of the ceasefire to all Naga areas\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cHis disrespect for his Naga roots and traditions is evident when he had reacted negatively to the Nagaland chief minister\u2019s appeal for amicable settlement of land disputes between Mao Council and SAPO, as per the Naga customary practices\u201d, it said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>CMO further said it was unfortunate that Gaikhangam seemed to have forgotten that he was a Naga by blood.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister\u2019s Office (CMO) media cell in a rejoinder, has hit out at Manipur deputy chief minister, Gaikhangam\u2019s comment calling chief minister, T.R. Zeliang \u201ca liar\u201d. CMO in a press note termed it as \u201chighly objectionable and defamatory\u201d.&nbsp; CMO said, in a news item published in the print media, Gaikhangam had accused Zeliang of lying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}