Nagaland is an integral part of India: RN Ravi

Guwahati: Nagaland governor RN Ravi said there must be no doubt in any quarter that Nagaland is and shall remain an integral part of the Republic of India. Any scheme to disintegrate this republic shall face the brunt of this great nation, he said.

At a time when India is rapidly progressing and changing dramatically, "we must make effort and advance with the rest of the country. I commend those who continue to draw inspirations from the founders of the state to realise their dream of a progressive Nagaland and urge those who have been led astray to join mainstream,” the governor said in his Republic Day address.

He said the government has taken several political initiatives towards enduring resolutions, but the latest of those could not fructify as yet due to unrealistic intransigence of some people who are unwilling to forsake the politics by gun.


He said the state hasn’t seen any major eruption of law and order problems for some time. However, the menace of rampant extortions under the guise of illegal taxation by anti-social elements has not yet been fully curbed though police and security forces have been taking action against such elements. This hampers development, he added.

The governor said the people of Nagaland have not been able to reap optimum benefits of various progressive schemes of the central and state governments, because some extra-constitutional entities in the guise of espousing the Naga national cause have queered the pitch for the people and the government and kept the peace and progress at bay.

He added that the mainstream Naga society has never accepted violence as a political resource.

The governor said normalcy began returning to the land, but at that time some hostile foreign agencies began fishing in the troubled water.

He said there is no space for politics by gun. Those who believe in such a politics shall always remain outliers in a democracy.