Claim of Kabui as separate entity rejected
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 07 2023:
While contending that frequent assertions ventilated through local newspapers by an organisation called "Kabul Union Manipur " that Kabui is a separate entity and is not a part of Zeliangrong community nor related to Naga group is a complete fallacy and distortion of facts, Zeliangrong Union (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland) and Zeliangrong Baudi (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland) said that all members of the indigenous communities of Manipur in particular whosoever relied upon truth and historical facts know beyond doubt regarding the origin and inseparability of Kabui and Zeliangrong community.
In a joint release, ZU (AMN) and ZB (AMN) said that the separate identity assertion is purely based on the controversial and administrative manipulation regarding tribe recognition orders issued in 2012 in pursuance to the state government's recommendation made to the central government in discreet manner without proper consultation with leaders of the Zeliangrong thereby resulted in recognition of one tribe as six separate tribes namely Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmei, Inpui, Kabui and Kacha Naga in the state of Manipur which has created unnecessary confusion.
Even though Zeliangrong is recognised as Kabui, Inpui, Kacha Naga, Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmei in Manipur and Zeliang in Nagaland and also Zeme Naga and other nomenclatures in Assam, the Zeliangrong tribe is one and represents as a single Naga tribe entity in the Naga Hoho (NH) organisation which encompasses the entire Naga territory irrespective of states political boundaries, the re lease maintained.
Making it clear that no historian, academicians or any sane person can substantiate with historical facts and evidences that Kabui, Inpui, Kacha Naga, Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei have separate history of their own to Zeliangrong other than relying on the controversial manipulative 2012 tribe recognition orders, the release further stressed that rectification of the gross errors and injustice commit ted against the interest of Zeliangrong people is highly required.