Source: Matamgi Yakairol
Imphal, July 11:
The Manipur University Teachers� Association (MUTA) has appealed to the four members Congress MPs team today to assess the ongoing situation in Manipur to urge the Government of India to withdraw the extension of ceasefire between Centre-NSCN (IM) beyond Nagaland.
The MUTA also submitted a memorandum to the visiting Congress (I) MPs team led by Congress Working Committee member and MP Mani Shankar Aiyar this evening.
According to the memorandum of MUTA signed by its president Th Ratankumar and general secretary S Dorendrajit, the teachers� body requested the visiting Mps team to use their office to mobilize political support to the cause of Manipuris.
Highlighting that princely state of Manipur merged with the Union of India in 1949 with a well defined boundary, the memorandum urged the Government of India to withdraw the ceasefire extension without territorial limits as a mark of respect to federal spirit and democratic ideas.
Affirming that the ceasefire agreement signed between the parties is based on one-sided and distorted facts and in spite of repeated assurances made by the successive Prime Ministers of the country, the ceasefire was extended to Manipur.
the peace loving people of Manipur would leave no stone unturned to achieve their goal in a democratic way, the MUTA informed the Congress MPs.
Expressing apprehension over the disintegration of the territory of Manipur in the wake of the extension of the ceasefire to the state, it pointed out that the extension of ceasefire will definitely disturb the harmony of pluralistic nature of Manipur.
It will have serious adverse repercussions in the State.