NPF lashes out at Cong Govt over census fiasco
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, January 15 2014 :
Accusing the Congress led Government of being anti-tribals and trying to forcibly reduce the population of the three sub-divisions of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul of Senapati district, Naga Peoples' Front (NPF) Manipur State unit today alleged that it is another form of commiting genocide upon the people.
The party would not stay quiet if the minority communities of the state are discriminated on any ground and that the party would face any form of discrimination, said general secretary of NPF Manipur State, Athuan Abonmei said.
"The Manipur state government has set certain agendas to fiercely reduce the population of the three blocks through the last two consecutive Census of 2001 and 2011.The state government has rejected the physically counted Census data of both 2001 and 2011, that too, after the provisional Census data was published.
This amounts to violation of fundamental rights of the concerned citizens.
As the officially verified and accepted figure of the population was rejected by the Manipur government, a joint re-verifications of Census 2001 and 2011 were carried out by S..KChakrabarti, DDG and Dr..M.HMehanathan, director, Minister of Home on May 9-10, 2011 and found 100 percent to be true.
However, the state government estimated the population at 40 percent randomly.
Such discriminatory attitudes of the state government need to be checked", the NPF leader pointed out.