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The Centre has held meetings to discuss if Khango Konyak, former chairman of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang), who was impeached and expelled by the Myanmar-based outfit could be allowed to enter India. In 2015, the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had approved banning the NSCN-K under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for five years. The NSCN-K had ousted Khango Konyak accusing him of being an Indian agent. He had taken over as chairman of the NSCN-K after the banned group’s leader S.S. Khaplang died in June 2017 in a Yangon hospital after a prolonged illness. Konyak, it is said, is somewhere along the Myanmar border waiting to hear from the Indian authorities. “A meeting was held to discuss whether Konyak should be allowed to come to India as he was associated with a banned group. We have to see if he can be of any use to the authorities in terms of disintegrating the NSCN-K,” a senior government official told The Hindu . Yung Aung, the acting chairman of NSCN-K, is a relative of Khaplang and belongs to the Hemi Naga community, native to Myanmar. Indian agencies suspect he has close links with China. Confirming this, Nagaland’s Deputy Home Minister Y. Patton told The Hindu that they had sent messengers to speak to Konyak.
