ZUF holds consultative meeting in New Delhi
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, April 04 2023: Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) reportedly organised a consultative meeting with leaders of Zeliangrong civil organisations, students' union branches in Delhi, Chennai, Pune and Guwahati, senior leaders, intellectuals, research experts and scholars from Delhi and other Indian cities on April 1 in New Delhi.

In a press statement issued Tuesday, the consultation was organised with the assistance of Zeliangrong Students' Union, Delhi with the objectives of providing a common platform for sharing the latest position and circumstances leading to the current political scenario with the government of India.

The consultation concluded with observations and shared understanding made on the Zeliangrong political movement.

Views, opinions, suggestions and inputs from the panellists and participants during the session were relevant to the ongoing process undertaken by ZUF with the government of India.

The consultation viewed that the Zeliangrong movement is of political problem, therefore, it must be politically pursued in a peaceful and democratic manner, for which the ZUF entered into a mutual and official agreement with the GOI on December 27, 2022.Certain misgivings on social media with regard to the content and intent of the agreement (CoO) were clarified and questions answered.

It further observed that the movement is a collective and inclusive cooperation and participation of all sections of Zeliangrong kindred people, the statement continued.

It then said that April 1 was chosen for the consultation in remembrance of the historic event of "Zeliangrong Solidarity Day" (Chukthoibe/Chukthoibo/Chuksumei), a day of coming together of Zeliangrong kindred people with accepting, forgiving each other, and uniting under an act of ritual performed on the April 1, 1934 at Dailong, in Tamenglong.

The day signifies our great reunion after the end of head-hunting era and thereafter the flourishing and prosperity of the Zeliangrong kindred people leading to this far, the statement conveyed.

It informed that Front's chairman Jenchui Kamei addressed the house during which he called on the people to come together for a collective action while offering "his magnanimous sense of general pardon" and urging all to "come on board for a greater and stronger unified force towards finding our common fulfilment of the Zeliangrong kindred peoples' aspiration" .

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