Feb. 2: The NSCN (I-M) has flayed Nagaland chief minister S.C. Jamir for his recent statement that the outfit?s leaders had virtually accepted Indian citizenship by using Indian passports to travel to the country.
Jamir had reportedly said Swu and Muivah had visited New Delhi as ?good Indian citizens with valid Indian passports?.
?While the visit of the collective leadership to India has proved meaningful in enhancing mutual trust and confidence that is most essential for resolving the Indo-Naga conflict, such a statement is totally irrelevant and nonsense,? a statement by the insurgent group said.
The statement claimed that the NSCN (I-M) leaders had written ?not applicable? in the ?nationality? column of their passport application forms, adding that travelling on Indian documents did not mean they had accepted Indian citizenship.
?When Mahatma Gandhi went to London to attend the Round Table Conference, he used British documents since that time India was under British occupation. It does not mean Gandhi was a good British citizen,? it said.
In Kohima, the Congress today corroborated recent allegations by the Khaplang faction of the NSCN that Congress candidates have been intimidated by rebels of the NSCN (I-M).
PCC working president Hokheto Sumi told The Telegraph that in the third week of January, Congress candidates were threatened by the NSCN (I-M) over telephone. ?Three Congress candidates near Dimapur were asked to join the NPF or not contest on party tickets,? he said.
But Nagaland People?s Front secretary-general Chubatemjen Ao rubbished the Congress accusation that his party was hand-in-glove with the NSCN (I-M).
He said, ?The Congress camp is getting depleted and breaking up, which is why it is trying to create a fear psychosis during the elections. It is trying to find fault with everything.?