Overview

• On August 12, CoRRP convenor Tesinlo Semy confirmed that the non-participation campaign will persist until the state government addresses its core demands.
• Independence Day directives include voluntary abstention from official events, a ban on cultural troupes from the Angami, Ao, Lotha, Sümi and Rengma tribes, and a mandate for student bodies to block compulsory off-campus participation.
• The five apex tribal bodies were instructed to mobilize their frontal organisations across eight districts—Kohima, Mokokchung, Wokha, Tseminyu, Zunheboto, Dimapur, Chümoukedima and Niuland—to ensure peaceful compliance with the boycott.
• CoRRP’s conditions demand removal of civil society representatives from the seven-member Reservation Review Commission, a fixed six-month tenure and removal of any link between its findings and the 2027 census.
• The Nagaland government constituted the commission on August 6 with members from the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation, Central Nagaland Tribes Council and Tenyimi Union Nagaland, triggering the tribe coalition’s opposition.