“Tower of Babel enacted in Nagaland”

Goa Governor S. C. Jamir, who also functions as acting Governor of Maharashtra, said the Biblical Tower of Babel has been enacted in Nagaland where people have started to talk in many “political languages”.

Interacting with a group of Naga students of Mumbai at the Raj Bhawan, the Governor said in the past “Nagas had only one voice, that of the NNC under the leadership of AZ Phizo”. “But now, we have so many groups in the underground movement as well as over ground politics where several national political parties have been embraced by the Nagas as was evident in the recently concluded elections.”

Commenting on the identity of the Naga people, the Governor rued that the same has been distorted and misinterpreted and warned that the identity will be destroyed not by anyone else but by the Nagas themselves. Substantiating his point, the Governor pointed out how intending candidates fought “tenaciously” for party tickets and had no qualms or hesitation to embrace any national political party just for the sake of party ticket even without knowing anything about the ideologies of that party!

“Nagas have started to speak in many political languages and I am reminded of the Biblical Tower of Babel,” he said. “We now speak many political languages and we also have multiple identities.”

He also said that he is reminded of the broken walls of Jerusalem in the days of Nehemiah when the thousands of Jews, who were there in the city, did not care for the many ills prevailing at that point of time even though they were directly affected.

The Lord had to ask Nehemiah to reform the people of Jerusalem.

Likewise, Jamir said Nagas too should have Nehemiahs who really care for the Naga society and called upon the youths to come forward to re-build the Naga society. Jamir regretted that nowadays, Naga people really do not care about the manifestoes or programmes or policies of the political parties and that voters cast their votes to the highest bidder.

“In the process, we have sent many bankrupt legislators to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly who are now burdened with debts,” he said and lamented that manifestoes and ideologies have lost meaning and that votes have been devalued.

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