Kohima, Feb. 24: Miffed with the Manipur government’s decision to disallow the use of helipads, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) today said it had no intention of spreading its wings in Naga-inhabited areas.

A six-member team of the NPF, led by planning and veterinary minister T.R. Zeliang, which had planned to fly to the three Naga-dominated districts on Tuesday, was not given clearance to land on the state-owned helipads by the Manipur government, citing security reasons.

T.N. Mannen, adviser and member of the central executive council, the highest policy-making body of the NPF, said his party has neither any ulterior motive nor a hidden agenda to spread its wings in all the Naga-inhabited areas.

“Even the Assam Rifles allowed us to use their helipads, Manipur government did not,” he told The Telegraph. “I don’t know why Manipur government is allergic to us.”

Mannen said they were scheduled to tour Tamenglong, Chandel and Senapati by chopper on February 22.

The NPF leader, however, said Nagas in Manipur have been extremely discriminated on all fronts by the Manipur government. “Our brothers and sisters have been discriminated in Manipur,” he said.

Denied helipads, the NPF team travelled to Senapati town by road and held a closed-door meeting with Naga political leaders on Tuesday. “We went there to feel the pulse of the Naga people,” Mannen said.

Asked whether the NPF’s move would facilitate the ongoing demand for integration of Naga contiguous areas under one administrative unit, the NPF leader said it was not a part of their direct mission but admitted that indirectly it was to facilitate the Nagas’ desire to remain as one without imaginary lines.

He said there have also been moves and efforts for emotional integration of the Naga people currently living in different administrative units by various organisations. “One should not be cynical about our democratic approach,” Mannen said.

The NPF adviser said his party would not use any force to accomplish the aspiration of his party but would go along with the people’s movement.

Optimistic about the prospect of his party being embraced by Nagas of other states, Mannen cautioned that people’s movement could not be suppressed by any force.

He also cited instances of the political upheaval in Egypt, Libya, Iran, other places in West Asia and the Arab world, where people have come out in the streets to fight for their rights and aspirations.