Naga pact is only a formula: T R Zeliang, Nagaland's chief minister

NEW DELHI: Naga peace pact is only a " formula" for a final accord, Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang on Sunday asserted while seeking to allay apprehensions of other northeastern states, and said that he and other Assembly members were even ready to step down to make a new beginning.

Voicing confidence that other rebels groups would also come on board after the signing of agreement between NSCN-IM and the Centre, he said a 16-member Naga delegation will visit Myanmar to meet S S Khaplang, the chief of the rebel group NSCN-K.