STDCM appeals
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 23 2019:
The Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of Manipur (STDCM) has appealed to all to take part in the mass protest rally which will be organised on March 3, Sunday, in protest against the State Government's failure to furnish necessary recommendation to the Central Government for inclusion of Meitei/Meetei in the Scheduled Tribe list.
A press release issued by the convenor of STDCM mentioned that the rally will begin from Thangmeiband THAU Ground and conclude at Konung Lampak and appealed to all to all the CSOs, clubs and organisations to offer support to the rally as well.
It further reminded that recently, the Central Government gave approval for the inclusion of six communities of Assam in the ST list.
With this, the only indigenous population, which has no form of Constitutional safeguards and which has failed to get included in the ST list is the Meetei/Meetei community, it added.