MPSTDC to start stir for ST status on Jan 27
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 24 2023:
As resolved in the people's convention held on January 22, Meitei Pan-gal Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee (MPSTDC), Manipur has announced that it will launch its stir for inclusion of Meitei Pangal in the ST list from January 27 .
Addressing a press meet at MPSTDC office, Hatta Golapati, here, on Tuesday, MPSTDC, Manipur convener Iskam Makakcha recalled that the people's convention held on January 22 had passed a resolution for inelusion of Meitei Pangal in the ST list as well.
As per the resolution, the Committee will press political party leaders, local MLAs and ministers to take up the issue in the upcoming third session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly starting from January 27, he mentioned.
In connection with the demand, the Committee will also pay mobilisation visits to various villages resided by Meitei Pangal in the state, Iskam said, while appealing to all communities to support their agitation.