ST demand
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 29 2016:
Pressing the demand for enlistment of Meetei/Meitei in the ST category, protest demonstrations were staged today at WAL Club ground, Wangkhei Angom Leikai and Thangmeiband Sinam Leikai.
One of the protesters at Wangkhei Angom Leikai said that Meitei/Meetei should protect themselves as no other community or State would come forward to save them.
The ongoing campaign for protection of Meetei/Meitei through a Constitutional safeguard can be more successful if all the people of Meetei/Meitei community join hands.
Meitei/Meetei should not forget their identity and genesis, she asserted.
At Thangmeiband Sinam Leikai, one meira paibi said that the Government of India ought to accept the demand for enlistment of Meitei/Meetei in the ST category under the Constitution of India.
It is time for Meitei/Meetei community to struggle collectively with a far-sighted view in order to save the indigenous peoples of the land who are being overwhelmed by outsiders, she added.
Both the protest demonstrations were held under the aegis of the Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee.