STDCM clarifies
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 27 2016 :
Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee of
Manipur (STDCM) said that they have been demanding the
inclusion of Meitei/ Meetei in the Scheduled Tribe list of the
Constitution under Article 342 (1) since 2011 to safeguard the
Meiteis' ethnic identity as indigenous people of Manipur to prevent
it from becoming extinct or minority in their homeland.
It also clarified that its former vice-president B Angousana
Sharma is no longer associated with the committee as he has
resigned on October 10, 2015 and said that whatever is tel-
ecast in electronic media regarding ST demand issues like
discussion programme etc is the recorded one, which was
taken before his resignation from the committee and further
said that whatever he says after October 10, 2015 is his
personal opinion and not of the committee, a press release
issued by the secretary(organisation) of STDCM, Imphal said.