Himantas talks with NSCN IM may compromise Assams interests Congress
Guwahati Sept 21 PTI The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee APCC President Bhupen Bora on Tuesday said his party views Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmas talks with the NSCNIM on Nagaland with suspicion and mistrust and fears Assams interests may be compromised in the long run Union Home Minister Amit Shah has deputed the Assam Chief Minister to talk with the NSCNIM in a bid to take the peace process forward The question now arises in what capacity will he talk with the NSCNI-M As a Chief Minister can he go and hold talks without taking the Assembly and Cabinet into confidence The NSCNI-M is known to be a supporter of Greater Nagalim and for all we know it is supposed to include parts of Assam Borah said adding that the Congress was against transferring any parcels of Assam territory Can the people of Assam trust Sarma to defend Assams interests when he had miserably failed to do so in the recent Mizoram-Assam border issue Can he be trusted to defend Assams interests in his talks with NSCNI-M when his blind allegiance is to the diktats of the BJP High Command he alleged It was also reported that the Chief Ministers of Nagaland and Manipur have also been asked to be a part of the talks along with Sarma but we were told that the Manipur Chief Minister decided not to participate in the talks due to differences on the Greater Nagalim issue Bora said The Congress wants the Government of India to place the contents of the Framework Agreement of 2015 before the public It also seeks that the Prime Minister Home Minister and Sarma should make their intentions public to the people of Assam before venturing into such doubtful and dubious expeditions in the name of peace talks the state Congress chief said In 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the Nagaland Framework Agreement of Government of India with NSCN I-M by declaring that this marks the end of a problem However the Framework Agreement was not publicly divulged and though the Congress had demanded at that time that the contents of the Agreement should be made public till today nobody knows what is there in it Bora said Subsequently the Prime Minister appointed a trusted aide Naga Peace Talks Interlocutor R N Ravi as Governor of Nagaland in 2019 However Bora alleged this did not help take forward the talks and the Framework Agreement appeared to have become a Discord Agreement with public spats between leaders of NSCI-M and the Governor becoming news headlines PTI DG JRC JRC
Guwahati Sept 21 PTI The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee APCC President Bhupen Bora on Tuesday said his party views Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmas talks with the NSCNIM on Nagaland with suspicion and mistrust and fears Assams interests may be compromised in the long run Union Home Minister Amit Shah has deputed the Assam Chief Minister to talk with the NSCNIM in a bid to take the peace process forward The question now arises in what capacity will he talk with the NSCNI-M As a Chief Minister can he go and hold talks without taking the Assembly and Cabinet into confidence The NSCNI-M is known to be a supporter of Greater Nagalim and for all we know it is supposed to include parts of Assam Borah said adding that the Congress was against transferring any parcels of Assam territory Can the people of Assam trust Sarma to defend Assams interests when he had miserably failed to do so in the recent Mizoram-Assam border issue Can he be trusted to defend Assams interests in his talks with NSCNI-M when his blind allegiance is to the diktats of the BJP High Command he alleged It was also reported that the Chief Ministers of Nagaland and Manipur have also been asked to be a part of the talks along with Sarma but we were told that the Manipur Chief Minister decided not to participate in the talks due to differences on the Greater Nagalim issue Bora said The Congress wants the Government of India to place the contents of the Framework Agreement of 2015 before the public It also seeks that the Prime Minister Home Minister and Sarma should make their intentions public to the people of Assam before venturing into such doubtful and dubious expeditions in the name of peace talks the state Congress chief said In 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the Nagaland Framework Agreement of Government of India with NSCN I-M by declaring that this marks the end of a problem However the Framework Agreement was not publicly divulged and though the Congress had demanded at that time that the contents of the Agreement should be made public till today nobody knows what is there in it Bora said Subsequently the Prime Minister appointed a trusted aide Naga Peace Talks Interlocutor R N Ravi as Governor of Nagaland in 2019 However Bora alleged this did not help take forward the talks and the Framework Agreement appeared to have become a Discord Agreement with public spats between leaders of NSCI-M and the Governor becoming news headlines PTI DG JRC JRC
