Why I started this “One Man Fight” against the Political System of Nagaland. But the problem now is thousands of Naga have deeply pinned their hopes in me that I can no longer quit, though I quit the party I was in!!(But I am no more in the party nor will I support it due to the inability of the team of Nagaland and their overambitious mentality that have already started taking them to the path of corruption)

Mathew Peter
Jul 23, 2017 · 5 min read

Dear friends,

Before I start off, I request you all on social media and outside not to take anything and everything I say in the context of the party. I, would put up a series write-ups on why I personally took up a one man fight against the political system of Nagaland and in doing so I have till date gained only one thing and that is “Rebukes/degradation/ threats and spits” from en-number of Nagas and nothing else. This is the Introductory Note and will be followed by other write-ups.

By the end of the final part of the write-up, I will in the end, apologise in public on the Social Media to the entire Nagas population worldwide, for all the truth I have uttered.

The love for the land I was born and bred kept me going till today but I doubt I as a human, can take this undeserved defamation and spits for long ’cause anyone say anything I have a dignity of my own which can’t be compromised and non-comparable too. It’s become too much that even my parents (who served all their good life only for Nagas and do so even now), their friends who too were in Nagaland (who still look into the welfare of the Naga students studying in Kerala) and family have started seeing the spit being spat on me and have started questioning me, “Why in the world do you want others to spit on you for no reasons?” And this makes me write, with real pain at heart and might be the next Series articles would be the last of my write-up on Nagas/Nagaland and the Politics of Nagaland. But I’ll continue to support any individual or Organization who would like my support to do something good for the society. I will also stand firm on the ongoing talks with some of my Naga Mamas, brothers and sisters on improving Education and life of rural women.

When Nagas don’t want nor they want someone else to motivate them a big question stands in front of me today and that is, “WHY SHOULD I?”

I decided to leave my job abroad on 31st July 2010 and come back home to Kerala. After a few months I felt very lonely as I was missing my younger day’s friends, baby love, aunties and elders and so I started trying to get in touch with my real-time friends of Nagaland as I had no contacts of them. In our times we never had Social media/mobile phones and all those and the land phones were minimal and all those that were there the numbers changed. With some help and all I got in touch with my Big Brother and through his help got all my friends one by one back. And that made me start a new FB Id just for my friends and people of Nagaland in the name of https://www.facebook.com/jolly.jolly.758 .

As 80% of elder Nagas and 95% of people of Kerala know me only in my Pet name JOLLY and not as Mathew Peter, I decided to use that and post my young days snaps and friends’ snaps. And the connections thus restarted with Nagaland after a gap of 30+ years.

All started in 2006 when a group of Techies of India working abroad and in India registered a political party called Bharatiya Punarnirman Dal (BPD) in 2006 to reform system and to “cleanse the political system” here. I too joined the movement, though I was working abroad. We could have opted for a flourishing career abroad just like many other Indian techies and professionals. But we chose to come back to our country to “cleanse the political system” here. That year the BPD contested a few seats in UP and Delhi in the last assembly elections, but lost. The BPD went in for the Lok Sabha elections 2009 where we contested seats in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, though we were not successful.

In 2011, Kisan Baburao “Anna” Hazare participated in the Satyagraha movement campaigning for the passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian parliament. Known as the Jan Lokpal Bill (People’s Ombudsman Bill), this had been drafted by N. Santosh Hegde, a former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal a social activist. The draft incorporated more stringent provisions and gave wider power to the Lokpal than the government’s 2010 draft. These included placing “the Prime Minister within the ambit of the proposed lokpal’s powers”. We the Techies joined the movement which was later called “Anna Hazare movement” when Hazare went into hunger strike on 5 April 2011.

Arvind Kejriwal stated that to make a change we have to be in the system and so Aam Aadmi Party an Indian political party, formally launched on 26 November 2012. I and many of the Techies too were also pulled into AAP through some of my friends through my Doons School contacts. And that started my political life with AAP(But I am no more in the party nor will I support it due to the inability of the team of Nagaland and their overambitious mentality).

All those who attended the first meeting of the Party were the National Council of the Party, which later expanded and keeps on getting big as the party keeps growing.

Read on in the next write-up,to find out the real facts as I want at least the people who love, respect and consider me still as a Naga to know why I came into the political system of their state.

Mathew Peter

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Chartered Professional Mechanical Engineer & Social figure, Ym. Engr. Mathew Peter popularly known by his pet name suffixed by his family name Jolly Kaimannil.

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