DCCADCs urges CM to protect minority communities
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 02 2022: The Demand Committee on Creation of Autonomous District Councils (DCCADCs) Pherzawl, Kamjong, Noney and Tengnoupal has appealed to Chief Minister N Biren Singh to safeguard the rights and interests of the downtrodden minority communities and the artificially created minority so that they could be represented in the ADCs.

A press release issued by DCCADCs with the signatures of its six key members extended its gratitude to the Chief Minister for creating separate ADCs for the new hill districts viz Pherzawl, Kamjong, Noney and Tengnoupal and added that they are indebted to the political wisdom of N Biren Singh.

The DCCADCs appealed to the Chairman of 'Delimitation Committee' and all the members of the committee and sub-committee to look into the interest and aspiration of the minority communities so that they could be represented in the Councils through direct elections in the interest of participatory democracy.

"There are artificial minority people living in almost all the hill districts of Manipur and the 'glaring example is that the Rongmei/Kabui people living in Henglep AC of Churachandpur have been deprived of their rights to contest and get elected in the Council due to the division of Rongmei/Kabui people of Loktak Project area in different District Council Constituencies (DCCs) namely in Leimatak and Khousabung DCCs," it claimed.

Saying that a historic decision was taken by the Cabinet to create separate ADCs for the new hill districts on March 27, 2021, it added that the Manipur Legislative Assembly had also passed the Manipur (Hill Areas) District Councils (Sixth Amendment) Act 2022 in the monsoon session of the State Assembly recently.

Now the number of ADCs has increased from six to ten and it was published in the Gazette of Manipur on August 24, 2022, it added.

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