{"id":896787,"date":"2026-03-19T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=496158"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:01:55","slug":"manipur-mp-leishemba-sanajaoba-flags-illegal-manipuri-pony-meat-trade-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/03\/19\/manipur-mp-leishemba-sanajaoba-flags-illegal-manipuri-pony-meat-trade-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur: MP Leishemba Sanajaoba flags illegal Manipuri Pony meat trade in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipuri Pony illegal trade\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipuri Pony illegal trade\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-17-1.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: Rajya Sabha MP and titular king of Manipur, Leishemba Sanajaoba, has highlighted the theft, illicit trade, and sale of Manipuri Pony meat, an endangered species, despite ongoing conservation efforts. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday night, Sanajaoba raised concerns about the rampant theft and illegal sale of Manipuri ponies for meat through black markets in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-mp-leishemba-sanajaoba-flags-illegal-manipuri-pony-meat-trade-in-parliament.html\">Manipur: MP Leishemba Sanajaoba flags illegal Manipuri Pony meat trade in Parliament<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-mp-leishemba-sanajaoba-flags-illegal-manipuri-pony-meat-trade-in-parliament.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-mp-leishemba-sanajaoba-flags-illegal-manipuri-pony-meat-trade-in-parliament.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Rajya Sabha MP and titular king of Manipur, Leishemba Sanajaoba, has highlighted the theft, illicit trade, and sale of Manipuri Pony meat, an endangered species, despite ongoing conservation efforts. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday night, S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-896787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896801,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896787\/revisions\/896801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}