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 orderhellip; above the district level will be done after the Governor's approval." — TNS

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