STDCM's protest completes 33 days
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, September 27 2022: The ongoing protest spearheaded by Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee Manipur (STDCM) for granting St status to Meetei -Meitei community has completed 33 days.

In continuation of the movement, STDCM in association with Nambul Brink Cultural Association and Pumsubam Leikai Women's Welfare Association organised a sit-in protest at Takyel Khongbal Maning Leikai on Tuesday.

Speaking at the protest site, STDCM youth wing convenor N Edison decried the government for not taking up any steps towards fulfilling the ST demand even after 33 days of protest.

Asserting that Meetei is an indigenous community, which is on the verge of becoming irrelevant in their own motherland, Edison said that the situation needs an urgent constitutional protection to ensure protection of the community's land rights, survival and sustenance, he said, while demanding early submission of necessary recommendation to the Centre.

Informing that that the ongoing sit-in protest will continue till October mid after which STDCM will consult the public for taking a different course of the movement, he appealed to the people of the state to support the movement.

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