NSCN-K could split after removing its India-origin chairman

Guwahati : It seems like the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) could split after impeached its chairman Khango Konyak on Friday and appointed Yung Aung as the new acting chairman of the Naga separatist outfit.

The newly appointed acting chairman 45-year-old Yung Aung (who is nephew of late SS Khaplang) is Myanmar-origin and the Myanmar-origin members of the outfit throw out its India-origin members and it is a bloodless coup.

Khango Konyak was removed from his post for alleged attempts at gaining complete control in the organization by violating the ideology of the outfit.

A top source said that, after losing his position in NSCN-K, Khango Konyak and his fellow Niki Sumi, the deputy army chief of NSCN-K and Isak Sumi, head of the publicity wing had already left from their base camps in Sagaing region in Myanmar.

The source said that, the India-origin members of NSCN-K would like to join in another Naga separatist outfit NSCN (Reformation).

“As many as 100 India-origin members of NSCN-K had left out from the camps in Eastern Nagaland,” the source said.

In a statement issued on August 17 after an emergency meeting held in presence top leaders of NSCN-K said that, the house unanimously resolved to impeach Khango Konyak for violation of party discipline as he is found

guilty of absolute control of powers without collective leadership, non distribution of powers exposing one-man-government policy, which is completely in violation of the party discipline.

The top source further said that, after impeached Khango Konyak, the outfit is now totally controlled under the Myanmar-origin members.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)