ENPO demands bilateral talks for separate state in Nagaland

Pushing for a separate state of 'Frontier Nagaland', Eastern Nagaland People's Organisation (ENPO), today demanded that the Centre should respond to its call for bilateral talks.
A memorandum was submitted to the Government of India in September last year but till date there has been no response, ENPO president, Chingmak Chang, said.
ENPO, an apex body of Naga tribes from the four most backward districts of the state -- Mon, Tuensang, Longleng and Kiphire, organised rallies throughout the four districts with sit-in protests at churches and fasting for three hours yesterday.
Chang said that people of the region had rejected the proposal of the state government to grant autonomous power to the four districts instead of a separate statehood, which, he thinks, would further divide the Nagas.

He also described the Centre's special assistance of Rs 300 crore for development activities in the ENPO districts last fiscal as inadequate.