Keithel women roll up sleeves for anti-CAB stand
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 17 2019:
By suspending all normal activities, a massive protest demonstration would be staged at Khwairamband Keithel tomorrow against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).
Speaking to media persons at Khwairamband Keithel today, Khwairamband Nupi Keithel Shinpham Amadi Shaktam Kanba Lup general secretary Thingujam (o) Rani said that the CAB would be certainly introduced in the Parliament during the winter session which would be held from November 18 to December 13.Earlier in February this year, women vendors of Khwairamband Keithel staged protest demonstration against CAB for five continuous days by putting up the nights at the market, Rani recalled.
Coinciding with the opening day of the Parliament's winter session, a fresh round of protest agitation against CAB would be launched tomorrow, she said.
There would be sit-in-protest tomorrow from early morning at all the three multi-storeyed market complexes as well as the adjoining market sheds of Khwairamband Keithel.
She appealed to all the shopkeepers and staff of private establishments located within Khwairamband Keithel to join the protest demonstration.
Meanwhile, CPI has pledged to fight against CAB both inside and outside Parliament.
It is said that CPI will stage a mass demonstration on November 19 against CAB at Imphal.
Speaking to media persons at Irabot Bhavan here today, CPI State Secretary remarked that Chief Minister N Biren who repeatedly claimed that a special clause would be inserted in CAB to protect the indigenous people of Manipur has now gone mute.
Like Biren, all his Ministers and the Lok Sabha MP are not saying anything about CAB now, Sotinkumar said.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of Meghalaya has met both the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister and openly expressed strong objection against CAB.
In the same vein, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh has convened a meeting of his Govt on CAB.
Whereas the Central Govt has no intention to give consent to the Manipur People Bill 2018 before CAB is implemented, the State Govt has been maintaining a stoic silence on the Manipur People Bill, Sotinkumar decried.