MTU to launch ST demand campaign
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 27 2023:
Meetei/Meitei Tribe Union (MTU), Manipur would be launching a month-long missed call campaign for granting ST status to Meetei/Meitei community in order to safeguard its culture, tradition, religion, religious places and identity.
Addressing a press meet at its Wangkhei Khunou office here on Friday, MTU administration secretary Mutum Churamani said that different organisations have been demanding ST status for Meetei community for the last seven decades amid persistent threat to culture, tradition, religion, religious places and identity of the community due to unrestrained influx of outsiders.
While asserting the demand is as per the constitutional right for people of the community, he pointed out that as the campaign is to garner maximum support the public should disseminate the information as much as possible.
The campaign will be conducted from November 20 to December 20 through mobile number 8732042511, he said, while urging the public to give a missed call to the number and also send their names and address details through SMS during the campaign period.