MANEI to meet with central leaders
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 14, 2013:
Manipuri Association North East India (MANEI) will urge the Government of India to make an anti racial discrimination law, said president of the association P Sonamani Singh while addressing the media at Manipur Press Club here yesterday.
The president of the association maintained that in order to check the wave of racist attacks on the North Eastern people in the national capital, it will soon meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, lawmakers and other Central leaders to seek for equal treatment of the North Easterners.
Demanding the immediate arrest of the culprits involved in the series of assaults on the North Easterners, the association has further said that such acts of torture, assaults, harassment, rape and killings of the North East people in the capital are not the first cases witnessed.
But such crimes have been a burning issue for many years from the past.
In spite of all the eventualities faced by the people of the North East, the central government and North East MPs have managed to remain silent spectators without taking up any safety measures.
P.Sonamani further told that the association will join the agitation organised by the North East Students' Organisation (NESO) at Guwahati against the rise of racial discrimination in the national capital tomorrow which is scheduled from 11 am till 2 pm in the evening in front of Raj Bhavan.
Officials of MANEI including advisor, Y.Mohendro, advisor, general secretary, Rk Rajendro, vice president, Sh.
Nabachandra Volcano, and M.Nabachandra, president, Manipur State Unit also attended the meeting.