The final settlement between the government of India and the National Socialists’ council of Nagaland (NSCN) lead by Th. Muivah and late Issaac Chi Swe is finally at the door. India government earnest effort to solve the problem of ‘the rebel group’, which they consider to be the mother of all insurgency movement in the state has compelled the mainland administrators to finally fulfill some of the demands which will not hurt the interest of the Indian nation.
After engaging in several rounds of talk for over 2 decade the Indian Government had finally succeeded to divert the conflict between the country and the NSCN-IM to a conflict between the state governments of each North East Indian state with the rebel group. Now the ball has been successfully thrown to the court of Chief Ministers of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
The declaration of the cease fire with the NSCN-IM on July 25, 1997 at the floor of Lok Sabha by the then Prime Minister of India, late Inder Kumar Gujaral had already sparked tension among the various communities of the North East India, compelling some of the civil society organizations of the state to take up awareness campaign about the ‘would be’ affects of the cease fire agreement. Four years later, after the declaration of the ceasefire, the extension of the cease fire ‘without territorial limits’ on June 14, 2001, at Bangkok, which was later popularly known as ‘Bangkok declaration’, the simmering tension of the various communities of the state reached to catastrophe. Manipur was nearly turn to ash with almost 60 percent of the people of Imphal coming out to the street of Imphal and pouring their anger to the government set up of the state. Almost all offices of political parties, official quarters of MLAs, Ministers etc were set ablaze by the angry mob. Even the temple of democracy – the assembly secretariat was not spared. It was during this famous uprising in the history of Manipur that a complete change to the peoples’ mandate during the general assembly election was brought.
After the signing of the Frame Work agreement on August 3, 2015 and the recent meeting with the interlocutor of the India government RN Ravi with 6 underground groups of Nagaland , stage is now set for a final solution. However, content of the agreement has not been let known to the public making it as a secret deal. Bothe Manipur and Assam government had expressed their apprehension.
On the other hand civil society bodies in Manipur are preparing for another bog protest if the FA crosses the boundary of Nagaland towards Manipur.
Manipur was burnt in 2001 and that too when the BJP led government was in power at the center . If Manipur burnt again people will no more tolerate to the responsible political party and its alias any more.
