On December 18 last year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah handed over the highlights of the draft MoS with ENPO on FNT to the Nagaland government for its comment at the earliest.“However, the issue is being stalemated till date for reasons best known to the state government,” the ENPO said. The tribal organisations of eastern Nagaland will hold another meeting on November 1 to discuss further course of actions.The ENPO, which is the apex tribal organisation of eastern Nagaland comprising six districts such as Kiphire, Longleng, Mon, Noklak, Shamator and Tuensang, has been for the past few years spearheading a “people’s movement” for Frontier Nagaland Territory. The demand stems from eastern Nagaland’s alleged backwardness.When Nagaland last year marked its 60th statehood day with the celebration of the Hornbill Festival, people from eastern Nagaland boycotted the event as the demand continued to hang fire.They had also boycotted this year’s Lok Sabha elections. Nagaland has 60 Assembly seats and 20 of them are in these six districts.
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