While the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FRN) has been playing the pivotal role in bringing together the factions, it was only last month that top leaders of the NSCN(IM), the new NSCN faction led by Khole Konyak, and the Naga National Council agreed to broaden the ongoing peace process finding an acceptable and honourable solution to the long-drawn conflict based on “uniqueness of Naga political history”.
The NSCN(K) led by S S Khaplang, which had suffered a major split with a group of top leaders led by Khole Konyak forming a new group by throwing him out, has not yet become part of the process.
Other organisations, including the Naga Hoho, the apex body of various Naga tribes, as well as political parties have renewed their plea to the Naga factions to come under one umbrella in order to expedite the peace process. The Naga Hoho has asked the FNR to include all groups into its fold so that a solution acceptable to all could be formulated.
The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee on Tuesday not only asked the factions to unite, but also urged the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to speed up the peace talks and find an early solution.
Muivah had only last month appreciated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for going the extra mile to seek a solution ‘outside the box’, adding that a honourable solution was expected to come around in the shortest possible time.
Reports from Kohima said the NSCN(IM) delegation would meet Centre’s interlocutor R S Pandey apart from other Union Home Ministry officials to carry forward the peace talks.
In May, the government and the NSCN(IM) had
issued a joint statement claiming the differences between the two sides had narrowed down.