PM Narendra Modi "Eager To Resolve Naga Political Issue": Union Minister

"Prime Minister Modi is eager to resolve the Naga issue. After taking oath as the PM (in 2014), he targeted an early solution of the Naga issue and initiated the signing of the Framework Agreement (in 2015 with the NSCN-IM)," Union Minister of State for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh said.

The predecessor government at the Centre had kept the Naga negotiations lingering but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eager to resolve the vexed Naga political issue (NPI) and initiated the Framework Agreement, Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh said on Tuesday. Mr Singh was on a maiden visit to Nagaland as part of the 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra'' initiated by the Prime Minister for the newly inducted union ministers. "Prime Minister Modi is eager to resolve the Naga issue. After taking oath as the PM (in 2014), he targeted an early solution of the Naga issue and initiated the signing of the Framework Agreement (in 2015 with the NSCN-IM)," he said. The Prime Minister is eager to conclude the agreement with a positive result, the union minister said and hoped that the Framework Agreement will bring IN overall peace in the region and particularly to Nagaland.