The former MLA was killed last week while attending a social event in Raho village of Tirap district by suspected militants from the banned outfit, NSCN (K-YA).
Arunachal Pradesh government has approved State Police s proposal to transfer investigations to National Investigation Agency of the killing of Matey. Suspected militant shot dead a former Arunachal Pradesh MLA in a village in Tirap district where he had gone on some personal work last Saturday. Yumsen Matey, a former Congress legislator, along with three of his followers had gone to the village for some personal work when someone took him towards a jungle on some pretext and fired at him killing him on the spot.
Dimapur, June 5 (EMN): Working Committee (WC), Naga National Political Groups (NNPG) and Tirap Changlang Longding People’s Forum (TCLPF), Tirap Changlang Longding Women’s Association (TCLWA), Tirap ChanglangLongding Students’ Federation (TCLSF) held a consultative meeting at the Oking on June 4. A joint statement from the groups stated that WC,NNPG leaders disclosed the matters being negotiated with the government of India to the delegation. The TCL leaders expressed “satisfaction” on the “clearly defined negotiated matters between WC, NNPGs and GOI with regard to status of Nagas of Arunachal Pradesh”, it read. It stated that the ‘clarity and transparency on the political and administrative aspects that would bring positive transformation in the lives of Arunachal Pradesh Nagas and other communities in TCL, was acknowledged’. “TCL leaders, in solidarity with the urgent expression of the Naga people everywhere for political settlement, urged the WC, NNPGs t