CIRCA appeals
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 27 2017:
Coalition for Indigenes Rights Campaign (CIRCA) has appealed to all the educational institutes to observe August 14 as the 70th Manipur Independence Day by unfurling the seven-colour National flag of Manipur embossed with the symbol of Pakhangba .
Speaking to media persons at the office of AIMS today, convenor of CIRCA Students' Front, M Angamba said that the organisation has been observing Manipur Independence Day from last year.
He said that Manipur got independence from the British colonial ruler on August 14, 1947 and on the day Maharaja Budhachandra hoisted the seven-colour Manipur flag at Kangla Fort .
He added that CIRCA Students' Front will organise an awareness programme on August 14 in connection with the observance function .
Rajesh Yumnam, co-convenor of CIRCA Students' Front who was present at the press meet informed that students may collect the National flag of Manipur from the offices of DESAM and AIMS to be used in the observance function.