Dimasa Public Organisation Nagaland (DPON) has questioned why the state government has excluded its Bishu Festival from the list of proposed mini-Hornbill festivals to be organised at the respective district headquarters of the state to coincide with the tribes festivals announced recently.
“Welcoming the state cabinet decision to hold mini Hornbill festival in district head quarters, the DPON is deeply pained for not covering/including the Bishu Festival which is a post harvest festival of the Dimasa (Kachari) in Dimapur district,” read the communiqué issued by the organisation.
The communiqué pointed that Bishu was a ‘government-recognised’ festival in the state of Nagaland. “It is not understood if it was purposely overlooked by the government to erase the legacy of the tribe. Kachari being one of the recognised indigenous sixteen tribes have concentration in 16 very old villages having the traditional land holding in Dimapur district.
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