UNC backs NRC call, opposes diktat on assembly
Source: Chronicle News Service / Newmai News Network
Senapati, August 01 2023:
United Naga Council (UNC), while stressing the urgent need for updation of National Register of Citizen (NRC) in Manipur, expressed its concern on alleged dictating of the government by various civil society organisations in the valley "for convening Special Assembly Session and imposing to all MLAs including the Naga legislators to stand in their interest".
In a statement, UNC expressed its concern on the reported influx of illegal immigrants in Manipur and said: "The Government of India's insidious devised policy of encouraging cross-border inflow of population from Myanmar should be stopped immediately as continuous influx of illegal immigrants from the porous borders of Indo-Myanmar will create a serious demographic crisis and wide raging ramification" .
It also said: "It is alarming to learn the fresh influx of illegal immigrant, Myanmarese nationals along the Indo-Myanmar border in Chandel district to the tune of 718 persons in just a day, as per the report of Assam Rifles 29 Sector, dated July 23, 2023" .
According to UNC, such "diabolical design of the Home Ministry, Government of India is nothing but to crush the indigenous people and to serve their whims and desires in the region" .
To this end, the state government should initiate stringent steps to curb the menace, it added.
The Naga body also stated that, in the wake of "ever increasing influx of illegal immigrants in the tiny state of Manipur", update of National Register of Citizen (NRC) is the only feasible mechanism to curb the unwarranted population invasion in the state.
Therefore, the state government should implement NRC at the earliest possible, it asserted.
It also said that various unwarranted developments have spiralled with the on-going conflict of Chin-Kuki-Zo and Meiteis in the state of Manipur.
According to UNC, various civil society organisations in the valley "dictating the government for convening Special Assembly Session on or before August 5, 2023 to protect the territorial integrity of Manipur state and imposing to all MLAs, including the Naga legislators to stand in their interest is highly uncalled for and nonsensical amid the fluid situation" .
The Naga body said that it is high time communities living in the state realise and respect different position and historical facts.
"Naga people will not accept any kind of imposition under any circumstances.
Therefore, UNC is necessitated to direct all the Naga legislators to abstain from such Assembly Session convening under the dictate of some civil society organisations," it added.