ATRPFM supports delimitation base on 2001 census
Source: IT News
Imphal, July 01 2020:
All Tribal Rights Protection Forum Manipur (ATRPFM) in a press release have expressed their support to the proposed delimitation of the state for demarcating of new constituencies based on 2001 census by the central Govt.The Forum pointed that the erroneous census data of 2001 which was kept withheld by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of India has already been rectified and stand as official records today and as such the debate over the legality of the data do not exist.
There have already been multiple calls to scrap the proposed delimitation by various NGOs and political parties of the state and to conduct it only after non-debatable and up to date data of 2021 census are available.