STDC urges all to contribute
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 07 2015 :
The Schedule Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur, while acknowledging the financial assistance extended by the Ima Leishem Loishang, Panthou Ishai Konung, Wangkhei Hijam Leirak has urged all to contribute what they can to aid the demand raised to include Meiteis/Meeteis in the Schedule Tribe list of the Government of India.
The said organisation had donated a sum of Rs 3,42,247.In a statement, the convenor of the publicity and propaganda cell of the STDCM said that all the indigenous inhabitants of the land should be governed under the same set of rules and regulations.
Excluding the Meiteis/Meeteis from the ST list is nothing but an attempt to drive a wedge among the indigenous people of the land, it said.
If the demand to include the Meiteis/Meeteis in the ST list is not heeded then the STDCM is ready to launch different forms of intense agitation, added the statement.
It is time that the Meiteis are declared as a Schedule Tribe and made to exist as one with all the indigenous people of the land.
Such a move will go some distance in neutralising any effort to sow seeds of differences amongst such divisions as tribal and non-tribal, added the statement.
It is time for everyone to take up the demand for inclusion in the ST list as one's bounden duty and extend all possible help and assistance to the cause taken up by the STDCM, the statement added.