Anti-CAB campaign will go on : MANPAC
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 12 2019:
Extending solidarity to the people of Assam and Tripura who have been protesting vehemently against the CAB, the MANPAC has declared that it will carry on its anti-CAB campaign.
Although the people of Manipur have found a breathing space after the Central Government extended ILPS to the State, all the fear and the apprehension of 'demographic invasion' have not been removed, said a press release issued by MANPAC convenor Yumnamcha Dilipkumar.
Taking strong exception to the arrest of many office bearers of AMSU by police for their democratic anti-CAB campaign, MANPAC demanded unconditional release of all the arrested anti-CAB campaigners and student leaders.
So far 10 people have lost their lives in the course of the vehement protest demonstrations currently raging in Assam and Tripura, it said.
Fearing backlash from the majority community of the State and oppression by security forces for opposing CAB, indigenous Tripuris, already reduced to the status of a minority, have been hiding in jungles during night, it conveyed.
It said that the people of Manipur would wear black badges and use black flags from December 13 to December 15 to show solidarity to the people of Assam and Tripura.
MANPAC would condole all the people killed in the two States in the course of the anti-CAB mass movement by offering light at the western gate of Kangla tomorrow evening.
Moreover, a review meeting would be held on December 14 at 11 am at Lamyanba Shanglen to discuss MANPAC's next course of action post extension of ILPS to the State, it conveyed.