Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang finds himself in a spot of bother after an FIR was lodged against him by a Manipur MLA for his alleged attempt to “breach” the state’s unity and territorial integrity.

Speaking at a conference of Naga villages in Manipur on Wednesday, Zeliang had called for de-recognition of “artificial boundaries” drawn across Naga ancestral land on the ground that the Naga villages were “village republics” and never part of Manipur’s Meitei (Manipuri) kingdom.

“The land, inhibited by the Nagas, was never part of the Meitei kingdom. It was brought under the geographical boundary of Manipur by the British for administrative conveniences.