Kohima, Sept. 17: The Opposition Congress today said the “demand and aspirations” of the Nagas could be resolved within the framework of the Constitution even as the Naga militant organisations rejected the Centre’s offer to find a solution within it.
Nagaland PCC president K.V. Pusa said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram told the state government and the Congress that no solution to the Naga problem was possible outside the Constitution.
Pusa said all the 60 Naga MLAs, cutting across party lines, have decided to forge a common voice. The political affairs committee of the ruling DAN government, under the chairmanship of T.M. Lotha, today had a closed-door meeting with Naga Hoho and Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation to develop a consensus on the problem.