Highway curfew
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 05 2015 :
The Meitei Youth Front, South East Asia (MYFSEA) has announced that they would impose an indefinite public curfew along Imphal-Jiribam highway with effect from May 6 midnight.
Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club today, MYFSEA president Ng Mangal Meetei said that Moidangpok Magjin which is around 10 hectares in area is being used by the people of Moidangpok as their grazing ground for ages.
However, sometime back, a particular community came to the area, also known as Keithelmanbi Moidangpok and settled there and now they are claiming that the same area belongs to them, Ng Mangal said.
"We have appealed to those people who were already settled there not to allow settlement of new families even if they belong to the same community", he conveyed.
On inquiring at the Settlement Department, it was confirmed that Keithelmanbi Moidangpok belong to Moidangpok and its people.
Mangal decried that one Minister came to the area and made provocative remarks as if he was determined to ignite communal conflagration.
Calling bandh in Sadar Hills area in connection with the issue by a particular student body lacks rationale and it would be in everybody's interest to call off the bandh, he remarked.
The area in question was developed as a grazing ground by people of Moidangpok at around 1990 when the New Cachar Road was constructed.
The whole issue is rooted in giving shelter/settlement plots to some families at the height of Naga-Kuki conflict in early 1990s.But more and more people coming from different places have been making their settlement in the said area.
The particular Minister who made provocative remarks after visiting the disputed site has been banned in Keithelmanbi Moidangpok area, Mangal added.