Arrested activists released, vow to scale up stir
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 08, 2013:
All the 28 volunteers of Inner Line Permit system students' wing, who were picked up by the police yesterday on alleged charges of stopping people from mainland Indian to enter Manipur, were released without any condition today.
Talking to mediapersons at the office of DESAM here after they were freed, convenor of the students' wing of Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), Moirangthem Angamba vowed that the agitation to press for implementation of ILP system in Manipur would continue even more vigourously.
Angamba demanded to know the restrictive regime which is in practice in other northeastern States like Nagaland and Mizoram could not be implemented in Manipur as well.
Coming out strongly against the crackdown on student activists, Angamba said that such high-handedness of the State Government and its police force has given them renewed courage to carry on the agitation until the demand is met.
It is unfortunate on the part of the State Government to use force against the student activists instead of putting pressure on the Centre for implementation of ILP system in Manipur under Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulations, 1873, he said, and appealed to all the people to join the ongoing movement for implementation of ILP in the interest of protecting the indigenous people from unregulated influx of outsiders.