Mr Muivah and his followers should realise that their demand for a separate Naga flag and constitution is unthinkable for the Indian government in the current context

xVeteran Naga leader Thuingaleng Muivah, general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (I-M), reached his native village, Somdal, in Manipur’s Ukhrul district on October 22 for a 10-day visit. This return to his village, after 50 years, is not just symbolic, but also an attempt by him to drive home the point that the movement for the “Naga nation” is vital, despite the 1997 Ceasefire Agreement or the 2015 Framework Agreement. His being the lone surviving member of the troika of Isak Chishi Swu, S.S. Khaplang and he himself, who founded the NSCN in 1980, gives him a standing, which no other Naga leader now h

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