Nagaland forms panel on their political issue

The Nagaland Assembly has created a seven-member drafting committee on the Naga political issue that has been hanging in the middle for more than two decades. Formulated by Speaker Sharingain Longkumer on February 16, the panel comprises of MLAs from ruling and Opposition parties, besides an independent. The MLAs who are part of the committee are Toshi Wungtung and Neiba Kronu of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), Pangnyu Phom and Jacob Zhimomi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chotisu Sazo and Imkong L. Imchen of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) and Tongpang Ozukum, an independent.