Vamuzo Phesao

Vamuzo Phesao (* 1938 ; † March 22, 2000 in Kohima , Nagaland , India ) was an Indian politician .

biography

At the age of 18, he joined the Naga underground movement in 1956 , which campaigned for Nagaland to break away from India . At the beginning of the 1960s, however, he was one of the advocates of remaining with India and thus of the status as a federal state within the Indian Union on December 1, 1963. As a member of the seven-member, public conference committee (Naga Public Conference Committee), he was one of the 1968 Mediators between the different groups to solve the Naga problem.

In 1969 he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly for the first time as a candidate of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and was one of the leading politicians in the opposition to the Naga National Party of Chief Minister Hokishe Sema until 1974 .

After a three-year absence from political life, he was re-elected a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1977 and was re-elected as such in 1982, 1987 and 1993 as a representative of the Indian National Congress (INC) .

On June 19, 1990, he finally succeeded KL Chishi himself as Chief Minister of Nagaland . During his tenure, which lasted until April 1, 1992, he began the Compact Area Development Scheme and founded the Village Development Board to support the predominantly rural population of the state . Phesao, considered one of the pioneers of India's regional political movement, was a co-founder of the United Forum of Regional Parties of Northeast India.

After he resigned as Chief Minister, he remained an advisor to the Nagaland People's Council until his death.

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