Student Wing hangs effigies of 57 MLAs
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 07 2015 :
As part of the ongoing movement demanding introduction of a stronger Bill to save the indigenous people of Manipur, Students Wing of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) hung the effigies of 57 sitting MLAs of the State early today morning on Thangmeiband road for their alleged failure to introduce a law to protect the indigenous people.
JCILPS along with various CSOs of the State has been demanding the State Government through a series of protests for the past many years to reintroduce the Inner Line Permit System which was revoked from the State in 1950 by the then Chief Commissioner Himat Singh.
The JCILPS called a State wide general strike with effect from midnight of July 6 to 7 pm of Tuesday demanding the State Government to implement a more rigorous law to check the influx of outsiders in the State.
It may be mentioned here that the Women Wing of JCILPS held a protest rally yesterday along Khwairam-band roads where protesters held banner reading "The State Government should not implement a law that cares for and protects the outsiders" .
The protesters also marched from Khwairamband Keithel road towards Manipur Assembly complex raising slogans like 'Long live Manipur' and 'Implement Inner Line Permit System' .
Police personnel tried to stop them but the protesters managed to pass the police barricade and marched up to the Congress Bhavan gate.
At least four girl students of Pioneer Academy, Manipur were also hurt when student protesters clashed with the police yesterday in Imphal East district.
In an interaction with a member of Students Wing of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System at Thangmeiband road, he stated that people are totally against the Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers Bill, 2015 which was passed by the State Government in the last Assembly session as it contains none of the recommendations placed by the JCILPS and the All Political Party Committee.
Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers Bill is against the sentiments of the people he said and added that all the coordinating wings of JCILPS will not remain silent but continue with more intense form of agitation if the Government fails to take up necessary actions for protection of indigenous people from non-stop influx of outsiders.