Won't cede an inch of land: Assam, Arunachal, Manipur CMs

Trouble seems to be brewing over the Naga accord with Chief Ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur today attacking the Centre for not consulting them over it and declaring that they will not cede an inch of their land.
"If a single inch of territorial area of Manipur is taken, we will fight tooth and nail," Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh told reporters targeting the Narendra Modi dispensation.
A 'greater Nagalim' or integration of Naga-inhabited has been the main demand of NSCN-IM, with whom the Centre signed the agreement on August 3 aiming to end the decades-long insurgency in the northeastern state. It is, however, unclear whether the 'greater Nagalim' demand has been accepted. Details and execution plan within the framework agreement are yet to be released.

Nagaland's neighbours Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are opposed to integration of Naga-inhabited areas.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi accused Modi of "blatantly violating" the spirit of cooperative federalism and parliamentary democracy by not consulting him and his Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur counterparts over such an important matter.
"I doubt whether the Chief Minister of Nagaland has been consulted," he said while Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki was of the view that the accord has come as a "surprise" as the Prime Minister "forgot" to contact the Congress chief ministers concerned.

Tuki said that he welcomed the peace process, but this should be done "without compromising territorial integrity" while Gogoi wondered as to why the accord has been kept secret, "if it affects ...States, we will oppose tooth and nail".

Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala targeted the Modi government for "keeping the three elected state governments in complete dark" with no involvement either in the process of negotiations or finalisation of terms of peace agreement.
Addressing a joint press conference at the Congress headquarters along with the three chief ministers and Congress general secretaries V Narainsamy and C P Joshi, he also hit out at Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman accusing her of deliberately misleading the nation on the issue.