{"id":164025,"date":"2014-02-01T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/02\/01\/enpo-responds-to-govt-on-tribe-recognition-reaffirms-stand\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:22:40","slug":"enpo-responds-to-govt-on-tribe-recognition-reaffirms-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/01\/enpo-responds-to-govt-on-tribe-recognition-reaffirms-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"ENPO responds to govt on tribe recognition; reaffirms stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Close on the heels of the state government\u2019s clarification over the issue of recognition of Rongmei tribe in response to the stand of the Eastern Nagaland People\u2019s Organisation (ENPO) and also the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC), ENPO vice president Yonglong Konyak and joint secretary Manlang Phom expressed support to all Naga communities\/brethren in terms of needs or difficulties regardless of where they are from or where they are domiciled. <br \/>\nPutting the record straight, ENPO said it stood absolutely for all possible moral and practical support to Rongmei Naga brethren in difficulties and was willing to go to any extend to defend and uphold their rights for social, political and economic rights.<br \/>\nIn this regard, the signatories said the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of ENPO had on May 4 2013, resolved to facilitate the difficulties and aspirations of fellow Rongmei Nagas in fully supporting them to avail the \u2018Indigenous Certificate\u2019 of Nagaland for all practical purposes.<br \/>\nHowever, ENPO said the CEC \u201cequally resolved to oppose and object the recognition of the Rongmei as a tribal status of Nagaland for all practical hurdles and difficulties\u201d. ENPO also made it clear to Rongmei brethren that the eastern Nagas of Nagaland should \u201cnot be misunderstood or misconceived\u201d in any manner. <br \/>\nENPO made the stand of the six tribes clear to the government of Nagaland and the department and to put on record, that while it supported the status of fellow Rongmeis in Nagaland whose ancestors were listed in the 1963 E-Roll for status as indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland to avail \u2018indigenous certificates\u2019 for practical purposes and privileges, it opposed any proposition to accord recognition of Rongmei Nagas as Scheduled Tribe in Nagaland, as per the May 4 resolution.<br \/>\nENPO said the resolution was adopted under the aegis of CEC and attended by officials of ENPO, members of CEC, federating tribal students, colleagues, president and colleagues of all frontal organisations such as ENSF, ENWO,steering committee members, advisors, prominent leaders and senior members.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ff0000;\">A non-aboriginal tribe cannot be made an aboriginal tribe, says ZPO<\/span><br \/>\nDIMAPUR, JAN 31 (NPN): Zeliang People Organisation (ZPO), Nagaland Friday said \u201ca non aboriginal tribe cannot be made an aboriginal tribe\u201d in the state of Nagaland and contended that Rongmei tribe was \u201ctraditionally and customarily\u201d not a Naga tribe of Nagaland but kith and kin of Naga tribes in Manipur. <br \/>\nIn a statement, ZPO (N) media cell said the organization did not \u201cvalidate\u201d any organization in Peren district which was ambiguously floated and claimed as subordinate to \u2018Baudi\u2019 of&nbsp; a non-recognized tribe. <br \/>\nZPO (N) claimed that the one-time general secretary of the \u2018Baudi\u2019 in an article published on a local daily on July 27, 2013 \u201capparently and still so preposterously unaware that Zeliang is a recognized tribe\u201d in Nagaland had stated that \u201cthere was never a history of Zeme and Liangmai as one Zeliang or for that matter Rongmei together as Zeliangrong tribe in the history of the people\u201d and reminded that there was no community recognized as Zeliangrong tribe neither in Assam or Manipur.<br \/>\nZPO (N) also said that the no Zeliangrong Baudi or its subordinate organization headed by people like \u201cKiezin and Kerang Dumtta\u201d claim to speak the voice of the people of Peren district.&nbsp; The organization claimed that the use of the term Zeliangrong was a facade of the \u2018Baudi\u2019 and it was \u201cswallowing up the entire interest of the native Zeliang people of Nagaland\u201d in order to achieve \u201ca personal ambition and political aggrandizement\u201d.<br \/>\nZPO (N) said a good number of the common people of Peren district and more so, the native Zeliang instead of realizing the facts were still trapped in the \u201cunsalvageable snare\u201d of a corrupted politician either due to their \u201csheer ravenousness or misfortune.\u201d The organization claimed that neither the unregistered ZPO nor the Zeliangrong Baudi or the even the Naga Hoho for that matter had the authority to create a work of fiction on the Naga customary practices in Nagaland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close on the heels of the state government\u2019s clarification over the issue of recognition of Rongmei tribe in response to the stand of the Eastern Nagaland People\u2019s Organisation (ENPO) and also the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC), ENPO vice president Yonglong Konyak and joint secretary Manlang Phom expressed support to all Naga communities\/brethren in terms of [&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-164025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164025","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=164025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}