Fast unto death stir for ILP
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 16 2012:
Advisor of Federation of Regional Indigenous Society (FRIENDS) Kakchingtabam Birahari has threatened to go ahead with fast unto death if the state government does not take a definite resolution in connection with re-imposition of Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state during the Monsoon Assembly session.
Announcing this at a press conference at the office of FRIENDS here today, Birahari lamented that even though the organization has time and again approached the State Government for re-imposition of ILP, it turned a deaf ear to the repeated appeals.
He alleged that all the leaders of the state, who are against re-imposition of ILP, are perhaps nurturing a desire for wiping out indigenous people of Manipur.
He pointed out that during the period from 1931 to 2001, the total population of the state was recorded as 22,93,896.Out of this, 7,51,822 were Meeteis, 6,70,782 were indigenous people of the hills, 1,67,204 were Meetei Muslims and 7,04,488 were outsiders.
The population of migrants in the state is expected to exceed the population of majority Meeteis according to the census report of 2011 .
Considering the increase in the number of migrant workers in the state, it is most likely that there will be no place for indigenous people of the state in the land of their birth, he added.
Joy Chingakham, General Secretary of FREINDS, who was also present at the press conference, informed that a signature campaign and an awareness programme on ILP would be conducted and FRIENDS would also go for further agitations apart from imposition of bandhs and blockades which normally affect the lives of common people in the state.