Significance of Zeliangrong solidarity day dwelt on
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 02 2018:
Zeliangrong Baudi (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland), Zeliangrong Youth Front and Zeliangrong Students' Union jointly organised the Zeliangrong Solidarity Day observance programme yesterday at Chingmeirong Kabui Village community hall.
The programme was held to commemorate the 84th "Solidarity Day" which was performed on April 1, 1934 at Tamenglong, HQ where Zeliangrong elders who drawn from different places came together as one and took a solidarity pledge that the Zeliangrongpeopleareonefrom the same ancestry byperforming a "solidarity ritual oath" .
According to a statement issued by Zeliangrong Youth Front, a black cat was beheaded and buried into two different directions - east and west.
They also took a pledge that whosoever breaks the unity and threaten the oneness of Zeliangrong people shall be fall the similar fate of the cat.
The observance programme was attended by village headmen, elders and senior leaders, village authority, women's leaders, intellectuals, scholars and academicians, social and public leaders, religious leaders, representatives of various civil organisations, youth's leaders and student's leaders.
Athuan Abonmai, president of Zeliangrong Baudi (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland); Gaidon Kamei, president, United Naga Council; Titus Kamei, president, Zeliangrong Youth Front (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland); Ashinpou Gangmei, chairman, Committee for Alternative Arrangement, UNC; Poupoklung Kamei, president, Manipur State Unit Zeliangrong Baudi; Heurang Newme, State Secretary, Zeliangrong Students' Union; Jonah Thaimei, asst general ANSAM; Micah Kamei, Info & Pub Secretary, ATSUM and Mathiupuang Gonmei, social worker seated on the dais.
Several resource persons including Dr Benjamin Gangmei, Associate Prof; Dr Budha Kamei, Asst Prof; Eshwar Chaoba Kamson and Akham Gonmei elaborately dwelt on the significance of "Solidarity Day" and its sacred observance.
Athuan Abonmai questioned the logic behind the claim of the separate tribe recognition issue raised by some sections of the same ancestry that how can the Zeliangrong people who are from the same ancestry, culture, custom, tradition and same practices but only slight dialectal variation can be qualified to become separate and categorize under different tribes status.
How double recognition status can be given to already recognized tribe? Is it possible and correct to grant separate tribe recognition status to children's of the same parents and same race of origin, Athuan Abonmai asked.
Many elderly persons from Tamengong HQ and other places exhorted the gathering that the bond of oneness of Zeliangrong brothers who are from the same origin will never be separated by the so called separate tribe recognition.
They appealed to the gathering not to be easily swayed by unrealistic emotion and not to be part of those people who are out to destruct the Zeliangrong family.
The elders cautioned the gathering that the outcome of the family destruction will gain nothing rather it will reduce the brothers into minority and weakest people which would not be pardoned by the upcoming generation.
Public who attended the observance programme made a declaration that the solidarity oath that was made by their forefathers in the year 1934 to remain as oneness of the Zeliangrong shall be upheld to sustain in all times to come at any cost.
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