Kohima Mar 24 PTI Parallel dialogues with the NSCNIM and Naga National Political Groups NNPGs comprising seven organisations and signing separate pacts with them will not help in finding a common solution to the Naga political issue United Democratic Alliance UDA chairman T R Zeliang said on ThursdayAll 60 members of the Nagaland Assembly came together to form the UDA an opposition-less government in September 2021 to pursue an early solution to the Naga political issue NPIThe Union government has been holding two separate parleys with the NSCNIM since 1997 and NNPGs since 2017 The Centre signed a framework agreement with the NSCNIM on August 3 2015 and also entered into an agreed position with NNPGs in December 2017There cannot be parallel dialogue and two different agreements for one common solution to the Naga political issue Zeliang a former chief minister said in the AssemblyThe framework agreement came after over 80 rounds of negotiations spanning 18 years with the first breakthrough in 1997 when the ceasefire agreement was sealed after decades of insurgency in Nagaland which started soon after Independence in 1947 The framework agreement signed in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi gave high expectations but the problem still remains unresolved he saidThe Centres then interlocutor R N Ravi had declared that the demand for separate Naga constitution and flag cannot be granted leading to a stalemate Zeliang saidThe Centre is not willing to accept the demands probably because it had abrogated Article 370 which gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir With the annulment of the special status in 2019 the separate flag and the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir cease to exist On the initiatives of the Core Committee of the State Government on the Naga issue Zeliang informed the House that after this Budget session the panel would go to Delhi and meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah to know the latest position of the Centre on the matter The members of the House should mediate between the two parties - the NSCNIM and NNPGs - so that they can come together and in that case the Centre will succumb to the pressure he saidReferring to BJP general secretary Ram Madhavs announcement before the 2018 Assembly poll that it would be an election for solution Zeliang said that every future election cannot be described as such We stand for inclusive honourable and acceptable political agreement and also stand for one solution one agreement he said Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio endorsed Zeliangs statement PTI NBS NN NN