DIMAPUR, Oct 14 NNN: \u201cThe government of India should find solution to the Naga political issue before the Election Commission of India (ECI) announces the date for the next assembly election of Nagaland,\u201d said Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio just before his departure for New Delhi today at Dimapur Airport.
\nNagaland assembly election is due early next year.
\nOn Sunday, a 20-member Joint Legislature Forum (JLF) of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly had left Dimapur for New Delhi by an Air India flight to press for the early settlement of the Naga political solution.
\n\u201cWe want that the government of India should solve the vexed Naga political problem before the state assembly election and to press the Central government we are going today to the national capital,\u201d stated Neiphiu Rio.
\nBoth the rulling NPF leaders and the Opposition Congress party legislators under the banner of JLF have gone to New Delhi and they are expected to camp there for the next one week.
\n\u201cWe will meet the Union home minister and if possible we will be meeting the Prime Minister too,\u201d disclosed a member of the JLF while talking to reporters at the airport.
\nThe JLF which has been floated few months ago by the 60 MLAs of the Nagaland legislative assembly cutting across party lines had already camped in the national capital some three months ago and met many Central leaders while pressing for the early settlement of the Naga peace talk.
\nOn October 9, chief minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio had said that it was hopeful that the government of India and the Naga outfits would take advantage of this opportunity to find an amicable settlement.\u00a0 \u201cIf this opportunity is missed, I don\u2019t know whether such opportunity will come back to our people during our lifetime,\u201d Neiphiu Rio was quoted as saying by a Dimapur newspaper.
\nAt the backdrop of this picture, Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had commented that the settlement pertaining to Naga political issue would be brought about by March next year, the time before the next assembly election of Nagaland.<\/p>\n\n