CIRCA stir
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 03 2015 :
As part of the month-long protest against the merger agreement, Coalition for Indigenes' Rights Campaign (CIRCA), Manipur has organised a sit-in today in collaboration with Nilakuthi YC and Nilkuthi Meira paibi Yaipha Thoudang Lup at Nilkuthi community hall.
A discussion on the pre-merger political status of Manipur was held at the occasion, according to a statement.
It was deliberated during the programme that the continuous movement against AFSPA, migrants' influx and threat to the territorial integrity of Manipur are all related to self-determination.
The core issue of the unrest lies in the merger agreement of 1949, it said.
It was also deliberated that the merger agreement was drafted against the wishes of the people by India to suit its own interest and end, the statement added.