Thang-ta festival to commemorate Khongjom Day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 19 2012:
Along with a procession to commemorate the Khongjom Day observance on April 23, Kanglei Indigenous Martial Arts and Cultural Society (Kimacs) will organise a three-day Thang-Ta Festival in honour of the Manipuri fore-fathers who laid down their lives for the protection of Manipur's independence, informed Kimacs general secretary N Pakpa Mangang.
speaking to newspersons at its Palace Compound office today, Pakpa said that the procession will be flagged off at 9.30 am of April 23 by Manipur's titular king Leishemba Sanajaoba from Kangla Uttra and will wind up at the Lamyanba iboyaima Shanglen in Palace Compound.
While appealing to all concerned to join the procession, he also informed that the thang-ta festival will commence from April 23 afternoon at the Shanglen.