Langban Heitha Leitha UCM offers tributes at Kekrupat
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 11 2022:
The United Committee Manipur (UCM) offered tributes to the martyrs of the Great June 18 Uprising at Kekrupat today on the first day of the Langban Heitha Leitha (Tarpon) observance.
Speaking to media persons by the sideline of the observance, UCM president Joychandra Konthoujam recalled that the people of Manipur reacted sharply to the Bangkok Agreement on June 14, 2001, which inserted the words 'ceasefire without territorial limits' .
Saying that 18 people were killed in police firing during the agitation against the extension of the ceasefire agreement, Joychandra maintained that it is the responsibility of every Manipuri to safeguard the territorial integrity of Manipur.
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Appealing to the State Government to declare June 18 as a holiday, the UCM president said that Manipur might have broken into pieces had the people not responded to the signing of Bangkok Agreement with blood and sweat.
He further urged the State Government to end the chronic Indo-Myanmar border issue.
"Solving the border issue would be difficult if it is not done while there is a BJP Government at both the State and the Centre and while Dr Ranjan is Union Minister of State for External Affairs," he added.