Nude protesters felicitated
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 17 2019:
All the eight members of Kyamgei Youth Pioneer Club (KYPC) who staged a nude protest against CAB 2016 at Canchipur near the office of BJP Manipur Pradesh were felicitated today and they were given the sobriquet of Pathou.
The nude protesters were felicitated at a function held this evening at the club's ground at Kyamgei Maning Leikai, Heibongmakhong.
As part of the mass protest against CAB 2016 spearheaded by MANPAC and PAM, the eight volunteers staged a nude protest last Tuesday near the temporary office of BJP Manipur Pradesh located at Langthabal Kunja Awang (Canchipur) .
They were presented a shawl each and certificates of appreciation today.
Speaking at the function, KYPC working president Kh Inaoba said that a large number of people of Kyamgei staged a protest demonstration on Imphal-Moreh highway at Kyamgei Pal Ahanbi on February 12 against CAB 2016 as all the people of the State and the North East are apprehensive that CAB 2016 will annihilate them all once it becomes an Act.
The unusual protest demonstration was staged in front of the BJP office with a slogan "We are sacrificing our private parts so that we don't procreate any more", Inaoba said.
In recognition of their bravery, the eight volunteers have been given the sobriquet of Pathou, he said.
Rather than felicitating Chief Minister N Biren and the political leaders who went with him to Delhi, BJP Manipur Pradesh should have felicitated the women vendors of Khwairamband Keithel and the eight nude protesters, he asserted.
The felicitation function was presided by KYPC president
Longjam Suranjoy.