Every problem has a solution and to effect it, there is always the most realistic way. In the words of Chairman Mao "Policy is the life-line". Therefore, any problem that is not handled precisely in the way the objective conditions warrant, is bound to meet with failure. It is policy that decides the outcome of any contest apart from strength. Thus, the question of making the right approach is, above all others, to be pondered over in the light of practical investigations.
The defeat of a people is not always brought about by the superiority of the adversary in strength but through incorrect leadership and pursuit of unfounded policy. We should take this fact into serious consideration in order to avert the danger of self-defeat. A people that fail to admit the maxim that national victory is impossible without correct policy and correct leadership is doomed to ultimate fiasco. It is not uncommon that often leaders act at the dictate of their feelings and whims and suffer setbacks one after another, for any policy that is independent of the objective conditions is without a basis and as such, is bound to suffer failure. Policy could be realistic when it is based on the actual conditions of the people concerned and their enemy, and the world in general. It is, therefore, not the matter of one's choice but that necessity that leadership should have correct assessment of any situation through close investigations. It necessitates that he should be around the center of situation, that is, he has to be with the masses, mobilizing and working in close association, to lead them through all the critical stages with policy that is warranted by the conditions. It is in this way that the people could appreciate the wisdom of the leadership and his concern for the nation. They could confidently rally round him. Moreover, they could learn the knack of making analysis into problems and know the right and the wrong for themselves. They could also acquire practical experience to handle situation, enhance confidence in themselves and raise their consciousness and enthusiasm for the realization of their cause. Such perfect harmony between the people and the leadership makes them invincible.
It is deplored that in the past long period of nation saving time, the leadership acted completely independent of the actual conditions and in total isolation from the people. No amount of attempts to explain away the aloofness of the leadership on the ground that he was sent out by the people could hold water any longer. Obsolete views should be shaken off. We should be realistic because it is the politics of saving the nation and not that of justifying one's position. we do not think it proper either, on the part of the leadership, to stay away from the people even when there is fatal danger at home and against the appeal of the people to come back and illuminate their way. It should also be borne that when he failed to understand the people and vice versa, both would be out of their bearings. However far he may make his way ahead, however high he may soar up, he is bound to be pulled back and be down if he does not pull the people along with him. He should see that there is no adverse gap between him and the people. Indeed, in the problem of this nature, nothing could be accomplished apart from the people.
The contention that a particular leadership staying in a foreign land has sustained the existence of Nagalim thus far and that he alone will bring the final victory too, needs immediate correction. It explicitly means that a policy, though it has no bearing with the objective conditions, could be correct and a nation could be saved without the support and sacrifices of the people. This is the basic erroneous conception that has bred internal strife which have brought the Nagas down to this ebb. Such view categorically rules out the support of the people and ignores their untold sacrifices. It has placed the leadership who has lost confidence of the people, above the people, above the nation and above righteousness. This section of the people, in no way stands for the national cause since it is in the line of direct negation. They are treacherous; they have to perish with the leader whom they blindly worship. Probably, their leader would bring them the golden plate of Nagalim's freedom from the hidden deep blue sky! Facts are stubborn and have no regards for anyone, although we acted oft-time in difference to elders. Things are now more in their realities and Nagas are no longer in their 1950s. We have to put an end to the reactionary mentality. We are revolutionaries; we do not believe in fantasy and absurdity; neither could we ever be persuaded of the talisman of any helpless leadership. We shall not fly in the air, we shall walk on the ground and work with the people for it is our experience that the correct policy could only be determined in the right perspective of given situation and correct leadership could emerge only in the course of the struggle along with the people.
In addition, the conduct of national affairs through the intermediary of the family and relatives all along the past years has naturally alienated the people and the government. The refusal of the leadership to keep correspondence with the Home Government on official terms and his meager and perfunctory pieces of advice, the correspondence between him and his family and near relatives, who are mostly traitors often despising the home authority, the subjection of government communications to the virtual censorship of the family, who maintain an air of haughtiness, the practice of viewing home situation in the light of self-motivated information from the family and his ultra vires utterances on some national issues - have made mess of everything in us. Such arrogation to themselves of the authority to conduct affairs exclusively and the shameless self-made notion of being above others in respect of nationality and ownership of Nagalim, has deliberately relegated altogether the people and the nation far to the background. Who can question these facts? Nagas are made to see a strange center of power, being created out of the family and relatives of the leadership and a few others with whom he has apparently formed an aristocratic circle above the government, above the people and above the Nagalim. He has practically forgotten the people and their immeasurable sacrifices. He does not count people's support but seeks the backing of his men who are mostly traitors. Accordingly, he has acted irrespective of the involvement of the question of national principles. People are alienated; he has dug a chasm between him and his henchmen on the one side and the people of Nagaland on the other. It will be a wonder of wonders if such policy is to be the wisdom to save a nation. Of course, if one knows the people the people would know him too; if one respect the sanctity of National cause, the nation would honor him too; and this is the go of the world. We are revolutionary patriots; we do not allow ourselves and our people to be imposed upon by empty rhetoric. We are vehemently opposed to the politics of any family or tribe that attempts to lord it over Nagalim. Parochialism of any form shall be done away with and nation shall be safeguarded to her integrity. It is known who is who and what is what. We will never relinguish Nagalim to anyone. It is high time to sum up our past and make a concrete approach to the confronting problems Nagalim has got to be liberated from prejudices, injustices and from all sorts of aristocratic snobbery.
