Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Home (Police) Prestone Tynsong on Monday said that summon notice issued to the general secretary of the proscribed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) Sainkupar Nongtraw was just a normal process of the court.
According to him, the judiciary and the executive are already separated.
“I think you understand that but see we had a formal talk once. Both the Central and State government have requested them to please speed up as to what are the issues they wanted for discussion. We are waiting for that,” Tynsong said.
“In fact, my appeal to them to the HNLC once again be serious, come up, we are waiting for you then we will discuss. As I said to you they need not be so panicky about the warrant issued by the court or the summons issued by the court. This is a normal process as I said to you that is why we would like to process the sitting at the earliest possible then we will work out all the issues,” he added.
Tynsong said that the ball is now in the HNLC’s court and the government is waiting for them in order to further proceed with the ongoing peace talks.
“We are waiting for them. We have already communicated to them. So the ball is now in their court. That is why the government is waiting for them to reply and fix (the date) and we would like also in the next talk that at least the chairman or the (general) secretary should also be present during the talks,” he said.
“As far as HNLC talks are concerned I would like to assure them once again, I would also like to request all of them, especially their senior leaders please come forward, we are waiting for you both State and Centre for the further talks which we would like to have,” he added.