Dear Jeyamohan,
I was working in the Northeast states for more than 23 years as a central government staff member; I have a clear-cut understanding about the cultural and political scenario of those areas. The majority of the people in the Northeast are members of various tribes and lead predominantly rural lifestyles. They have no idea about the other parts of India and the world.
In the early days, the Christian missionaries—actually, they were political spies disguised as missionaries—spread the idea that every tribe is a separate nation, and they could achieve it. At the age of the Cold War, it was the plan of the USA. Then China took it into their hands. Laldenga is the creation of missionaries, and he was the tool of China in his later years. No one will refuse it now, because he himself admitted and talked about it.
The Indian government then had many reservations on this matter; they worried about their international image as the champions of democracy, and they just ignored the northeast. They entrusted the northeast to the hands of the army and just forgot it.
The person who came out of those fake democratic pretensions and worries of image is Narasimha Rao, and he is responsible for the destruction of the separatists. He cut off their international supply lines, and they began to fall immediately because they have no proper support from the public of the Northeast. The common man of these areas is tired of these slogans of the separatists and anguished against their oppression and exploitation.
Today’s government has no pretensions; they are traders with clear ideas, and they are developing trade in these areas. Actually, trade brings peace and prosperity.
M.K.R.Kumar
