Politics / Nagaland

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...

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 ? The war of words between Nagaland Chief Minister S C Jamir and the NSCN (I-M) hotted up yesterday with the latter taking exception to the former?s reported statement that its leaders Isak and Muivah came to Delhi as ?good Indian citizens with valid Indian passport.?

?While the visit of the collective leadership to India has been proved meaningful in enhancing mutual trust and confidence that is most essential for resolving of the Indo-Naga conflict, such kind of statement is totally irrelevant and nonsense,? a statement from the insurgent group said.

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ITANAGAR, Feb 1 ? Arunachal Pradesh has opposed the inclusion of some parts of the state territory in greater Nagalim. However it made it clear that the government is not against the peace talks between New Delhi and NSCN (IM) leaders. "The State government is not against the peace process which should be within the ambit of the territory of Nagaland and within the framework of Indian Constitution", Takam Sanjoy Minister, Education and government spokesman told media persons, on Friday.

Sanjoy emphatically stated that not a single inch of land of Arunachal Pradesh would be parted with...

DIMAPUR, Jan 31 ? The Bharatiya Janata Party Nagaland unit in a bid to bring an end to the reign of the SC Jamir led Congress government has hooked up with three other political parties to form an alliance. If all goes well, the forthcoming elections would see Nagaland People?s Front (NPF), Samata Party, Janata Dal United and BJP jointly take on the Congress. This was disclosed by the BJP national vice-president Pyarelal Khandelwal at a press conference at the Kuda Guest House, here recently.?The decision was reached at a joint meeting of the BJP with its three would be allies.

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KOHIMA, Jan 31 ? Over 10.16 lakh voters would exercise their franchise on February 26 for the election of a new 60-member Nagaland Assembly, reports PTI.

Of them, as per the newly-revised electoral rolls, the number of male voters stood at around 6.30 lakh while the female electorate were 3.86 lakh, according to official sources. As electronic voting machines (EVM) would be used for the first time in the ensuing Assembly elections, the EVMs were being displayed by the state electoral office at public places with a view to making the people familiar with the functioning of machines.

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Dimapur, Jan. 30: The Trinamul Congress, which has entered into an alliance with the BJP in Tripura, was formally launched in Nagaland yesterday.

Sources said though party chief Mamata Banerjee could not be present, she was very keen on the party making its presence felt in Nagaland in the run-up to the February 26 elections.

Trinamul Congress vice-president Paras Dutta, who is also the MLA of the Behala East constituency of Calcutta, while launching the party, appealed to all non-Congress parties in Nagaland to unite to oust the S.C. Jamir-led Congress government. ?All parties opposed to the...

Imphal, January 30: The Khaplang faction of the NSCN is all set to hold political dialogue with the Government of India by August this year. Well-placed sources close to the NSCN (K) supremo SS Khaplang disclosed to the Network .that if everything goes well, Khaplang and his aides would start political dialogue even before August this year. The source said that the leaders of the Khaplang group including the cabinet ministers and high ranking officials of the underground government are now holding intensive and extensive discussion to chalk out strategies for the dialogue at one of the base...

Kohima, Jan. 29: A senior member of the National Socialist Council Of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah)?s tatar (council), Tevodeho Tetso, was abducted and killed by unidentified persons yesterday. In a bitter reaction, the NSCN (I-M) immediately put the blame on its rival, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) for the killing.

Tetso?s body was recovered near Rusoma village, 10 km from Kohima, this morning. He was abducted by unidentified gunmen from near the Kohima High School junction on Monday.

Though Kohima police had launched a hunt after a complaint was filed, all they could recover...

Kohima/ Dimapur, Jan. 28: In yet another jolt to Nagaland chief minister S.C. Jamir, senior Congress MLA and former minister T.A. Ngullie today quit the party and joined the BJP, apparently after being denied a Congress ticket for the February 26 Assembly elections.

Ngullie?s resignation followed a similar move by T. Chuba, minister for higher and technical education and land revenue in the Jamir Cabinet, on January 16. Home minister Neiphiu Rio had quit the party last year.

Ngullie, a former finance minister, is a sitting MLA from the 27 Tyui constituency. He said he felt free now that he had...

Kohima, Jan. 28: In a departure from the traditional style of campaigning in the state, the Nagaland People?s Front (NPF) is trying to croon its way into the voters? heart.

?Congress party, Naga manuh bikri na korbi? (Congress party, don?t sell the Naga people), sings Vibeileituo Kets in ?Save Nagaland?, an audio album released by the NPF yesterday as part of its poll campaign.

While in the plains of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar parties have used Jaunpuri jingles to tickle the mind of voters, this is a maiden musical campaign for Nagaland.

The album, with the NPF?s symbol ? the rooster, has eight...