Disqualify Kuki MLAs: COCOMI Women's Wing
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, September 25 2023:
COCOMI Women's Wing has demanded the speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly to disqualify the 10 Kuki MLAs for their campaign to disintegrate the state.
Addressing a press meet at its office premises here on Monday, COCOMI Women's Wing coordinator Y Leirik Leima said that the stand of the 10 Kuki MLAs has infuriated the people of the state and the speaker should disqualify them at the earliest.
The current crisis in the state was started by illegal immigrants, narco-terrorists and those who want to disin -tegrate the state.
Meetei people in the hill districts as well as foothill areas were chased out and their houses have been burned.
Till date, no Meetei people have been able to return to their homes.
The foothill areas of the state that surround and overlook the small valley area have been occupied by armed Kukis.
The crisis is not over yet as Kuki militants are still occupying several bunkers in the adjoining areas of valley.
It will be over only when the militants are disarmed and detained.
Before such an initiative, the people of the state cannot accept the government's plan to seize arms from the village volunteers, who are defending the state in the frontline, she said.
She further demanded the government to take up strong legal actions against the perpetrators of the violence instead of blindly following the directive from the high command as it would only infuriate the already agitated public.