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Manipur Deputy CM against splitting state
The Hindu | IBOYAIMA LAITHANGBAM | Imphal, August 07, 2013 :
Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam Gangmei has brushed aside the demands for homeland and new state for the Naga and the Kuki tribals who are demanding scissoring off the Naga and the Kuki "lands" from Manipur as mere pipe dream. They made the comments in the backdrop of the renewed demand for the creation of Jiribam district by upgrading Jiribam sub division to a full fledged revenue district, the "alternative arrangement" for the Nagas in Manipur and a Kuki state to be carved out of Manipur.
Talking to journalists on Wednesday night Gangemi said that Manipur has an area of 22, 327 sq. km which is much smaller than any district of a big state. If the areas dominated, as claimed by maps now in circulation, by the Nagas and the Kukis are sliced off what will remain of Manipur will be ludicrously small. He appealed to the architects of these states to abandon this unreasonable demand. It may be recalled that the organisations of these two tribes had circulated maps of their proposed "alternative arrangement" and Kuki state. If these areas are conceded to them what will be left of Manipur will be much smaller than a standard village in any state.
Gangemi said that if there are different new states for the Nagas, the Kukis, the Meiteis and the Muslims, then this ancient state with a written chronicle of more than 2000 years will be fragmented and the generations-old cordial communal harmony will be smashed to smithereens. He said that the architects of the new states should stop dreaming for and quarterbacking the disintegration of Manipur.
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