By Oken Jeet Sandham
\nKOHIMA, Apr 20 (NEPS): Nagaland Home Minister Imkong L Imchen expressed his happiness on the prevailing peaceful environment in the State.
\nTalking to NEPS here today, the Minister claimed that \u201cNagaland is the most peaceful State comparing with other states.\u201d \u201cIf you look at the pre-2008 situation and compared it with the 2012 situation in the state, I think, peace is there in the State,\u201d he described.
\nStill not subscribing to the argument of the Opposition Congress that Naga underground factional clashes and killings should be taken as \u201claw and order problem,\u201d the straight talking Minister elaborated that all these issues were correlated to the political activities of the Naga political issue.
\n\u201cIf the Congress thinks that those issues are law and order problem, let them deal with it according to their philosophy,\u201d he hit back.
\nThey should understand that the Government of India had even \u201crecognized\u201d that the \u201cNaga issue is political.\u201d So definitely it had to be dealt politically and definitely it should not be from the perspective of the law and order angle,\u201d he pointed out.
\nImchen also failed to understand the logic of the Opposition Congress that the Naga underground factional issues should be dealt with a \u201cfirm hand.\u201d
\nAsking the Opposition Congress to explain what they meant by a \u201cfirm hand,\u201d the Minister wondered whether the so-called a \u201cfirm hand\u201d was there in their (Congress) regime.
\n\u201cWe are not going to kill anyone,\u201d Imchen said. \u201cWe are also not going to disturb the peace in the state.\u201d
\nAsked how long the DAN Government would pursue the policy of being a \u201cfacilitator\u201d to the ongoing peace talks between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM), Imchen said, \u201cSo long it is required, we will remain as a facilitator to the peace talks.\u201d
\nElaborating further of their policy of being a facilitator to the ongoing talks, the Minister stated that the peace talks were between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India and they (DAN Government) were not a party to it.
\nHe, however, made it clear that they had trust in the \u201cwisdom\u201d of the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) leaderships that they would bring good solution to the Nagas. \u201cSo we are even prepared to pave way in the event of arriving at an honorable solution to the issue,\u201d he said.
\nAsked his comment on the reported plan of the NSCN (K) to have a bilateral ceasefire with the Myanmar Government, the Minister said there should be peace \u201ceverywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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