Save the indigenous people of the land. This slogan is central to the demands put forth by the KSA to bar non-locals from contesting elections in the State, delete all the non-locals from the voting list as well as the demand of the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) to enact a legislation to check the large scale influx of non-local people into the State. Underlining the point that all these demands, though championed by different groups, centre around the future of the indigenous people vis-a-vis the non-local people, who have been flooding Manipur for long. Why Manipur continues to attract so many non-local people has been touched upon many times in this column and while the demand to pass a Bill to protect the indigenous people should be there, all must also give some thought on why such a big vacuum has been created in the first place to let others rush in and fill up the vacuum. Others rushing in to the fill any vacuum thus created is the law of nature and this is something which cannot be wished away that easily.
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