Liangmai JAC lashes out at MLA Nemcha Kipgen and Hari Nepal
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 29 2016:
The Joint Action Committee for Protection of Liangmai Ancestral Land (JAC-PLAL) today said that the assurance given by Kangpokpi Assembly Constituency MLA Nemcha Kipgen to create Gorkhaland in the hill areas of Manipur is a tactic to lure Nepali voters.
The Liangmai JAC has advised the MLA and self styled Gaon Bura Hari Nepal to run through the constitutionally protected land holding system of the tribals in the hill districts of Manipur.
The JAC-PLAL statement came at the backdrop of the torching incident of a house by unknown miscreants at Poudel Basti recently.
According to the statement, when everyone else is concerned about resolving the incident, Hari Nepal has been tirelessly spiting venom.
"Unlike Hari Nepal's organizations, JAC-PLAL is mandated by over 70 Liangmai villages in the under the leadership of T Disimang.
Every activities or statement of JAC-PLAL so far is consensus and support from various tribal forums is gaining momentum each day," it claimed.
The JAC-PLAL alleged that Hari Nepal was socially boycotted by the Nepali community and Liangmai Nagas in Irang areas in a joint meeting convened by JAC-PLAL on November 8, 2016 at Tapon village for creating troubles in the area.
"Our village boundaries stands clear in the official gazette.
We have never consented to any Government (British or India) at any point of time for allotment of our land to anybody," the JAC-PLAL said.
It also stated that the Liangmai Nagas have been allowing the settlement of Nepalese in there area purely on humanitarian ground with certain terms and conditions.
It said the payment of annual tributes to the landowners by Nepali tenants which is practiced till today clearly evidence that the land is owned by the tribals.