Naga body up in Arms against peace talks interlocutor RN Ravi, writes to PM to replace him

The Naga Intellectual forum (NIF) has sought the prime minister’s intervention in resolving the long pending peace process soon. Writing to the Prime Minister’s Office, the Naga body sought to initiate immediate remedial measures to revive the Indo-Naga Peace Process aftermath the Present Deadlock.

The NIF wrote that the longest running Indo-Naga Peace Talk have been hit by rough patches now and then, and sought the prime minister’s intervention to unlock the Indo-Naga political impasse. The organization said that as the conflict will linger longer so would the magnitude of damages grow.

Blaming the incumbent GOI Interlocutor RN Ravi, the NIF said that the present deadlock is the culmination of unbridled monopoly of the whole gamut of negotiation by the intelligence bureaucrat on one hand and deprivation of a "political expert" to the peace process on the other.

The body placed a five point charter of demand before the prime minister:

i)  RN Ravi's rancorous remarks against the main negotiating tean1, the NSCN-IM in 2014 even before his appointment as interlocutor had already instilled mutual distrust.

ii)  Emergence of various newly formed groups and organizations within the Nagas, aligning and realigning themselves with differing opinions reacting to any Naga unity and Integrations call can apparently be a premeditated move of artful luring and instigation with the idea of creating starkly opposing blocs within, by RN Ravi to neutralize and wipe out a Naga political cause. All this coincides with his short term as an interlocutor as compared to minin1al such occurrences in the previous other Interlocutors' term.

iii)  His brusque handling of the Peace Talk including the serving of a three months' Ultimatum fron1 August to October 2019 is tyrannical and dictatorial in nature.

iv)  His term as 'an Interlocutor is markedly served with a drastic rise in increased miliitarization obviously to instill "Fear Psychosis" for submission to a lopsided solution.

v)  And his willful manipulation of the contents of the 2015 "Framework Agreement" while surreptitiously divulging a 0 Doctored version of FA" to picked sections of his choice is "Aggressively Deceptive" in nature while obstructing disclosure of the same by the other side.

The NIF further stated that RN Ravi lacks the three epsilons or basic traits for a good interlocutor. The organization lamented that if in case the GOI intends to continue in engaging him as the interlocutor, it can only 1ean the deliberate intention on the part of GOI to suppress the Naga Political issue.

The body requested the prime minister to immediately replace RN Ravi and mutually understand each other for inclusion of a political expert to work out an ideal solution to the delicate Indo-Naga political talks.

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