Manipur News

IMPHAL, Sept 8: A team of the United People`™s Front Manipur led by its president Oinam Bikramjit provided financial help to the helpline opened at Christian Hospital Dewlahland for those injured in the recent Churachandpur violence.

A statement of the front said the recent Churachandpur incidents which left nine dead and many injured were unfortunate.

It said the front shares the grievances for all the losses.

It has further appealed to all not to spread rumours which could create communal tension among the different communities residing in the State.

It said it is also time for the people to sit down together and discuss the three bills together and for the government to call representatives of the different CSOs of the State to invite for talks.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/09/upf-provides-financial-help/

IMPHAL, September 8: Zeliangrong frontal organizations including Zeliangrong Baudi-Assam Manipur & Nagaland; All Zeliangrong Students`™ Union-Assam, Manipur & Nagaland; Zeliangrong Youth Front-Assam, Manipur & Nagaland and Zeliangrong Students`™ Union Manipur had during a joint meeting condemned deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam alleging him to be irresponsibility and selling out the tribal rights.

According to a joint statement, the tribal organizations had a series of parley in the aftermath of the passing of the three Bills namely the Protection of Manipur People`™s Bill, 2015; Manipur Land Reforms & Land Revenue MLR&LR Bill (7th Amendment) 2015 and Manipur Shop and Establishment Bill (2nd Amendment), 2015 in the State Assembly on August 31.

Instead of defending the rights of the tribal in Manipur, Dy CM has repeatedly stated that the three bills will not infringe upon the tribal interest of Manipur.

It said the deputy CM is also the head and in-charge of the Hills Department of Manipur.

He is the stumbling block to the future development of all the tribal people in Manipur and Zeliangrong in particular, it claimed.

The MLR&LR Act 1960 has been extended even to Khoupum valley, Tamenglong district and other hills districts under his initiative contrary to the claim that the said Act is confined in valley districts, it said.

He attempted to extend the same to Noney (Longmai) area but the local people strongly opposed it, the statement said.

The Act is already extended to Chandel, Churachandpur districts and Sadar Hill ADC, it cotinued.

Gaikhangam`™s repeated statement on the three bills that the bills don`™t impinge upon tribal interests in Manipur is a blatant misleading to the people, it said.

Any matter related to the tribal and the Hills districts should come through the Hill Area Committee (HAC) but the present MLAs made it non-functional, and in future the dominant community MLAs will take the reference from the 2015, that any matter related to the Hill districts need no approved from the HAC that will be the gateway to permanently do away with this HAC, the statement said.

Alleging that MLA of Tamenglong 53 A/C Janghemlung Panmei is totally irresponsible for not attending the Assembly when the bills were passed, the tribal bodies said MLA of Tamei 52 A/C Z Kikhonbou is also unable to represent his people and community effectively by failing to perform the assigned tasked given by the government as Chairman of a Sub-Committee to look into the Inter-District Boundaries under the rules 226 (1) (2) of the rules of procedure conduct of business on June 13 regarding encroachment on the land of hill districts.

He should immediately resign as an MLA owning moral responsibility for unable to secure his own district boundary directly affecting his constituency, the statement demanded.

Reaffirming its stands on demand for immediate resignation of all the three Zeliangrong MLAs, it said the three MLAs who sold away the rights and land of the Zeliangrong people have no rights in representing the Zeliangrong people in the Assembly.

On any eventualities which demean and affect the interest of the hill districts of Manipur, the Zeliangrong frontal organisations will face defending the interest and rights of the tribal and Zeliangrong until those anti-tribal bills are declared null and void or repealed, the statement vowed.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/09/gaikhangam-comes-under-attack-from-zeliangrong-csos/

MPHAL, Sept 8: As in other parts of the world, the International Literacy Day 2015 was observed at Maharaj Chandrakriti Hall Palace Compound, Palace Compound today with Minister of Social Welfare & Cooperation AK Mirabai Devi; Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries Md Abdul Nasir; Adhyaksha of Thoubal Zilla Parishad Kh. Surnalata Devi, Chairperson of ADC Senapati ML Markson and Commissioner (Adult Education) and vice-chairman of SLMA Manipur B.B. Sharma attending as chief guest, president and guests of honour respectively.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/09/intl-literacy-day-observed/

IMPHAL, September 8: The Coordinating Committee All Tribal Students`™ Union Manipur (ATSUM) is pained to see the state government deliberately enacting self-inflicting laws in the interest of the major community at the expense of tribal / indigenous said a release of the committee.

It said that instead of admitting its ill design, the State government is still trying to sell its anti-Tribal policy to the people obstinately which has driven a wedge deep enough to bleed the State beyond any hope of redemption.

It is for the world to see the present scenario where all state machineries are activated to cramp down poisonous laws in the throat of the tribals with brute majority.

The Constitution of India bifurcated the administration of the State into two distinct selves i.e., The Hill Areas of Manipur and the Valley of Manipur.

It is self-explanatory that one of the intrinsic organs of the State call the Hill Areas under Article 371 C of the Constitution of India has long been rendered non-functional by the interest of the major community who are responsible for sending 40 MLAs in the sixty member State Assembly where reserved seats accounts for only 20 MLAs.

The dynamics of these electoral-political circumstances compel the20 MLAs to toe the line of the 40 MLAs representing the majority community on party as well as ethnic lines.

It further continued that modern political history of the tribals in Manipur is more or less a struggle for survival around this vicious circle where everything the tribal hold dear have been coerced away some way or other.

Now even their identity is at stake. With this responsibility in mind, ATSUM as a vanguard of the Indigenous/Tribal people of Manipur have asked the 20 Tribal MLAs to tender their resignation by owning up the responsibility of having failed to perform their constitutional duty, it said.

Without malice to anyone, the ATSUM shall fight until justice is seen to be done to the indigenous/tribal people of Manipur and until such time we claim a dignified political space we rightfully deserve in the biggest democracy in the world, it said.

To this end ATSUM supports any form of democratic protest in the Hill Areas of Manipur to register their grievances to the State government as well as central government for timely intervention said the release from coordination committee ATSUM information and publicity wing.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/09/atsum-committee-charges-govt-of-pushing-antitribal-policy/

IMPHAL, September 8: In protest against the alleged assault on Arambam Anilkumar, 46 on September 5 around 7:30 pm by locals of Lamdeng Chingjil Makha Leikai, a large number of people from Sagolband Meino Leirak, Imphal West staged a sit-in-protest in the locality today.

Narrating the incident, Anilkumar said that on the fateful day he along with his wife Joyshree visited their newly constructed farmhouse located at Lamdeng manned by a caretaker and his wife as the farm house came under attack frequently by unknown persons.

On the day, a group of seven to eight persons in inebriate condition used abusive words and created a scene threatening their safety, he claimed.

`In such alarmed situation, I fired two shots from my license double barrel gun in self defence`, Anilkumar admitted.

Wrongly interpreting his act of self defence and charging him of detaining a local, the mob burned down the farm house along with a Scorpio SUV and inflicted injuries on the eyes, nose and head of Anilkumar, a protester added.

Accusing him of committing other heinous crime of adultery, the mob also harassed Joyshree and the caretaker`™s wife, Anilkumar contended.

He expressed that the concerned club and people of Lamdeng should produce the persons involved in the incident in the larger interest of people and proper judgment should be given according to the law.

Meanwhile, a woman protestor said that a complaint will be forwarded to the women`™s organizations of the State to look into the matter.

The sit-in-protest was organised by the Young Pillars Union of the locality.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/09/sitin-denounces-assault-on-man/