Kuki MLAs urge Shah to re-impose AFSPA in valley
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 24 2024:
The ten Kuki-Zo MLAs of Manipur have reportedly wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah demanding re-imposition of Armed Forces' Special Powers Act, 1958 in the valley.
According to the letter addressed to the Union home minister, the 10 MLAs said that legislators of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly sans members from Kuki-Zomi-Hmar representatives vis-a-vis coercive signature of other non-Meetei MLAs adopted a one-sided misconceived resolution on January 21, demanding abrogation of the ongoing political discourse between Kuki armed groups, which signed the Suspension of Operation (SoO) agreement, and the state and central governments.
The partisan decision was nothing but a sinister ploy to demean and tarnish the image of the SoO groups, they said in the letter.
It also mentioned that the continued presence and reinforcement of state force in Moreh is root case for violence in the border town while suggesting that there will be peace and tranquillity once all the state force personnel belonging to Meetei community are withdrawn from Moreh and tribal police officers and personnel deployed like in Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts.
The MLAs in their letter to Amit Shah also claimed that since the looting of arms and violence continue unabated, the Assam Rifles and the Indian Army should be given full powers to recover the arms looted from the state police and IRB by re-imposing AFSPA in the valley.