Talks between ZUF, MHA: 7th round held
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 30 2025: The Zeliangrong Statehood Working Committee (ZSWC) held the 7th round of talks with the Ministry of Home Affairs at New Delhi yesterday.

The talk is at an advanced stage.

Pertinent matters in the light of defining a memorandum of settlement were discussed point by point in the form of a preliminary draft presented, said the Zeliangrong United Front in a statement, issued by its secretary information and publicity, Louis Gangmei.

The talk concluded with a positive note for further refining and defining an acceptable term/modality to be framed in the upcoming rounds of talk that will be intensive and thorough, it added.

Notably, Jenchui Kamei, chairman, ZUF addressed the talk at New Delhi, and underscored that it coincided with the 94th Haipou Jadonang Martyr's Day.

Jenchui remembered Jadonang' legacy and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for setting up the Zeliangrong political talk.

"The Zeliangrong political movement is revolutionary as well as reformative-democratic in nature.

It is a freedom movement alongside Indian freedom movement.

Its foundation is based on human instinct to be free from all foreign rules," Jenchui said.

The ZUF leader recalled the genesis of the Zeliangrong movement and said Jadonang was the founder of the Zeliangrong Revolutionary Movement (ZRM).

Jadonang's instinctive impulse as a fighter was to save, defend and free his people and land from invaders, Jenchui said.

Jadonang fought against the colonial invasion in this part of the region alongside the Indian freedom movement.

He was hanged and executed by the colonial regime in 1931 in the same manner as those Indian freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Raj guru and Sukhdev Thapar, Jenchui said.

If India is to prove to the world of her high sense of justice, humanity and pride of attaining a height of universal democracy, Jadonang must be officially recognized, declared and accorded with the title of freedom fighter of India, Jenchui said.

The ZUF leader expressed hope that "the price of our long and hard struggles and sacrifices made to attain our aspiration will be met finally" in the talks in Delhi.

"It is our hope and high confidence that the Government of India will make a settlement deal with our people at the earliest," Jenchui said.

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