![]() Chaliha facilitated all my travel documents to visit England,” said Adinno in an interview with ET Magazine in Kohima last week. He said you must go and tell your father that he must speak not just for the Nagas but for Assam, too. Realising that there was no future for Assam, Chaliha himself asked me to visit my father in London. Chaliha and other Assam leaders felt abandoned and betrayed by Nehru. “During the 1962 Chinese aggression, Assam was literally abandoned. Now, if Adinno Phizo, daughter of Nagaland’s first underground leader AZ Phizo, is to be believed, none other than Bimala Prasad Chaliha, a veteran Congressman of the post-Independence era and the then chief minister of Assam, was so upset with Nehru that he facilitated Adinno’s travel documents to Britain so that she could convey a special message to her father who was then controlling the Naga insurgency from London. In some countries, a marine force is often part of a navy, but can also be under army or independent command. The context of that comment was the fall of Bomdila, now in Arunachal Pradesh, to the Chinese invaders during the India-China war of 1962, and Nehru possibly anticipated an imminent fall of Assam. A marine is a member of an infantry force that specializes in naval operations such as amphibious assault. It has been well recorded in the contemporary history of Assam that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s All India Radio speech aired on Novemangered most Assamese when he said: “…our countrymen in Assam, to whom our heart goes out at this moment”.
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