Zeliang yesterday met Modi and said that states bordering Nagaland need not worry about their territory, but added that the content of the peace accord was not yet out.
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To a question whether he knew the content of accord, the Chief Minister said, “I also do not know anything about the accord“.
Khoiwang said that the delegation was going to Myanmar at the request of the parliamentary working committee of the Nagaland government, which has constituted a joint legislators forum also to create consensus on the Naga issue.
The Naga peace accord, between the central government and the NSCN-IM, was signed here on August 3 in the presence of the prime minister.
Chief ministers of Minister and Nagaland separately met the Prime Minister here during which the issue related to the Naga peace accord was discussed.
Informing that Manipur chief minister was assured that Centre would take the states in confidence while taking a decision on issue relating the states, security sources said that Mr Singh complained that Prime Minister did not inform him about the signing of the Naga accord.
And government interlocutors, faced with a building backlash from the north-east, have been virtually forced to move back a couple of steps in admitting that the “accord” was not a final document but just a draft agreement at best.
Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh yesterday called on Modi at his residence in Delhi.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi, BJP leader and Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman alleged that the former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had spoken about Teesta accord during his Bangladesh visit but West Bengal Chief Minister was not briefed.
She chared the government with being “arrogant” in not briefing Congress chief ministers of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Assam despite their states being “directly affected” by the pact. They have returned to their states with the assurance from the top echelons of the government that they will be part of the final decision.
The agreement, however, does not ensure complete peace in the region because of the rebel NSCN (Khaplang group), which has remained active in the recent past.
The three chief ministers have now asked the Centre to provide them with a copy of the agreement with NSCN(IM) since they were not consulted when it was framed.
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One of the NSCN-IM’s most contentious demand has been the creation of Nagalim or Greater Nagaland comprising all Naga-inhabited areas of the northeast, which according to officials, had been “set aside for now”.
