Renewed thrust given to ILP demand : ILPS movement targets MLAs' houses
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 05 2016:
Reinvigorating the popular movement for enactment of a constitutional safeguard for protection of indigenous peoples of the land , people have started gheraoing private residences of MLAs today.
JCILPS Women Wing today marched to the private residence of Keishamthong AC MLA Laisom Ibomcha and Naoriya Pakhanglakpa AC MLA RK Anand.
The women activists first landed at the residence of L Ibomcha.
Talking with the protesting women, Ibomcha said that an ILPS related Bill was tabled in the State Assembly repeatedly.
He said that he made a number of suggestions in the process of a drafting a new Bill but the issue could not be pursued vigorously as the Opposition members constitute a small minority in the State Assembly.
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Nonetheless, Ibomcha assured that he would put in his best efforts to table, pass and enforce a Bill for protection of indigenous peoples.
The women protesters then marched to the residence of MLA RK Anand.
But they had to came back as the MLA was not at home.
Speaking to mediapersons about the renewed campaign, JCILPS Women Wing convenor Thongam (O) Apabi said that all political parties should state their respective positions in unambiguous terms regarding the ILPS issue in their election manifestoes.
Even as the State has been passing through a crucial phase, political parties are indulging in cheap political gimmicks and mudslinging.
Decrying the deafening silence maintained by Ministers and MLAs regarding the ILPS issue, Apabi said that they would resume intense forms of mass agitation apart from storming the houses of MLAs.
On the other hand, a team of JCILPS Women Wing today pulled up three non-local labourers without valid identification documents from Uripok Chakrikom.
The non-local labourers identified as Munna Sahad(43) s/o Badri Sahad from Patna, Bihar, Umesh Das (40) s/o late Mintra Das from Muzaffarpur, Bihar and Akhilesh Singh (24) s/o Anug Lal from Motihari, Bihar were paraded before mediapersons.
Apabi decried that the incumbent State Government has shown little interest in passing a Bill for protection of indigenous people even though the term of the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly is about to end soon.
She said that they would continue with the ongoing campaign of checking entry of non-local people into the State without valid identification documents.