New Delhi: Two years after they first showed up in the national capital amid media glare and much celebration by people coming from Nagaland, NSCN (I-M)'s top leadership – Issac Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah – will land in Delhi again on December 20.
They are likely to hold talks with the Central leadership to carry forward efforts for a peaceful solution to the Naga insurgency issue. Swu and Muivah had last visited India in December 2004 and held talks with leaders of the Vajpayee government.
The visit by Muivah and Swu, coming close on the heels of their last round of peace talks with the Central government team assumes significance. The NSCN (IM) leadership had held the last round of dialogue in Amsterdam with a Group of Ministers led by Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes.
Though it was not immediately clear as to who all the NSCN leaders would meet in Delhi, sources in the Government said they would try and iron out the differences with the Centre on certain key issues, including the sovereignty demand under which the NSCN-IM has proposed a federal relationship with Indian Union.
The delegation is expected to continue its discussion with the Central leaders over the limits of flexibility within the Constitution and whether a 'sub-national Constitution' could be accommodated within it.
The two leaders were also expected to visit Nagaland for Christmas celebrations besides addressing the issue of recent clashes between the cadres of NSCN-IM and its rival NSCN (Khaplang) faction, which resulted in the death of several people in the recent past.
The two leaders may also review the progress made since the NSCN-IM submitted a 20-point charter of demands to the Centre.
In this charter, the NSCN-IM has sought unification of all Naga-inhabited areas of the Northeast, an issue opposed by Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh; separate representation at the UN and greater rights over natural resources, finance, defence and policing.
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