The issue was raised following a question of Congress' C. Apok Jamir who asked the Higher Education Minister for clarification from the state government whether it has intervened to sort out the confrontations between the authorities and the teachers although the institution is a Central University.
The Congress members also took strong exception to the reported investigation conducted by the central executive of ruling Naga Peoples Front (NPF) into the affairs of the university.
When Higher Education Minister Shurhozelie said the probe by a private body neither came under the purview of the state government nor the Nagaland Assembly, senior Congress member K L Chidhi stood up and countered Shurhozelies observation asserting that he was answerable to the House being the education minister and president of a political party which conducted investigation.
At this Shurhozelie replied that there was nothing wrong on part of the NPF if it conducted an investigation into the affairs of the University in the larger interest of the people of the state. But both Mr Chishi and Mr Kheto Kinni insisted that the NPF intervention was unfair and unacceptable. Informing the House about the governments efforts to end the imbroglio through a cabinet sub-committee, Shurhozelie regretted that both the authorities, the Vice-Chancellor and NUTA were non-cooperative to the governments good intention. Nagaland Parliamentary affairs Minister T R Zeliang, who is the Chairman of the Cabinet Sub-Committee, told the Assembly that the Sub-Committee convened a joint meeting of the authority and the teachers on March 23 at Lumami campus, but the Nagaland University Teachers Association (NUTA) informed that it would not turn up for the deliberation.
He also informed that both the authority and teachers were right in their own points, however, no one wanted to compromise in the larger interest of the future of students.