Root cause of border row discussed
ICHAM to launch agitation from December 10
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, November 19 2013:
Negligence and leaving all the Border Pillars on the Manipur sector of Indo-Myanmar border without care for a long time by both by the people and state Government are the grounds for the border row, admitted International Meetei Forum on Tuesday.
During inaugural speech of a discussion "Manipur People's Dialogue" organised by Manipur People's Party (MPP) at the Press Club here, RK Rajendra, president, International Meetei Forum was of the opinion that the people and the state Government have neglected the Manipur sector of Indo-Myanmar border for a long time, thus, becoming the root cause of the current boundary dispute.
"We should own up the responsibility for the border row because we have left our boundary without a heed to it for very long time," he said.
Territorial integrity of Manipur can be protected one way or another, but the demand for separate homeland within Manipur must not be allowed to hold it back, Rajendra said.
N Sovakiran, president of MPP and H Ibotombi Khuman, advisor of United Committee were also present during the opening function of the political dialogue on the boundary issue.
The dialogue resolved to launch a mass campaign on the Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing issue.
MPP and its like-minded political parties and various social organisations will jointly spearhead the campaign.
Participating in the dialogue, N Rajendra, president, Information Centre for Hill Area Manipur (ICHAM) strongly urged for unity among all the political outfits in the state on the border issue.
For ICHAM, he said, agitation will be started after December 10 over the border issue and it would ask other civil society organisations to join it.
State unit of Trinamool Congress said its four MPs will be visiting Imphal on November 25 to explore the border issue which will be raised in the upcoming Parliament session scheduled to begin December 5 .
Th Inaocha, president, Manipur state TC while talking during the discussion, said no part of Manipur sector's boundary area will be allowed to cede to any country.
Representatives of social organisations, Senior Citizens for Society and various political parties also took part in the discourse.