Meira Paibi questions CM's 'stay home' plea
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, June 25 2023:
While questioning the rationale for the chief minister's appeal to meira paibi activists to remain indoors, Khurkhul Apunba Meira Paibi asserted that the ethnic violence in the state could have caused collateral damages to lives and properties had the women folk not maintained strict vigil day and night.
Speaking to media persons at Khurkhul Lamkhai Keithel on Sunday, Meira Paibi member Khaidem Shibanandi pointed out that the womenfolk are mostly daily wage earners and generally engaged in seasonal plantation of crops.
However, in view of the present restive situation and many sacrificing their lives for Manipur, they are out on the streets to protect their children from adverse elements and to extend help to the vulnerable areas, she maintained.
While opining that the CM's appeal to the womenfolk to remain indoors smacks of naivety, she pointed out that there would be no need for the Manipuri womenfolk too come out from the comfort of homes amid the volatile situation if the state government could control the situation.
Further stating that agricultural works are at a standstill in Khurkhul area in-spite of the prime cultivating season due to the constant threats from Kuki militants, she demanded the government to effectively withdraw the SoO agreement and launch crackdown against perpetrators of violence to enable villagers settling in the peripheral areas to focus on paddy plantation.
Khurkhul Apunba Meira Paibi endorses the movement taken up by Universal Mother's Association, she vowed.