Governor: Armed gangs running their own Government in Nagaland

New Delhi, June 28

Five years after the framework agreement was signed between the Union Government and NSCN-IM leaders, Nagaland Governor RN Ravi, who has also been a Central interlocutor for peace talks, in a letter to CM Neiphiu Rio says armed gangs are challenging the legitimacy of the state’s law and order machinery, which has created a “crisis of confidence in the system”.

The agreement was signed on August 3, 2015, by NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah and Ravi in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and it was expected that soon Naga insurgency issue would be settled.

Ravi in his letter, a copy of which is with The Tribune, said, “Over half a dozen organised armed gangs, brazenly running their respective so called ‘governments’ challenging the legitimacy of the state’s law and order machinery has created a crisis of confidence in the system.” He said, “I can no longer abstain from my constitutional obligations. I propose that hereafter important law and order decisions like transfer and posting of officials entrusted with maintenance of law and order… above the district level will be done after the Governor’s approval.” — TNS