Congress’s Yatra To Begin Right now From Manipur, Scarred With Ethnic, Unlawful Immigrant Tensions

1. Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh, flanked by occasion leaders Okram Ibobi Singh, Keisham Meghachandra Singh, Nabam Tuki, and Gaikhangam instructed reporters within the state capital Imphal that the most important problem earlier than the nation polarisation, financial inequalities, and political authoritarianism.

2. The yatra can be flagged off from a personal floor in Thoubal district, as an alternative of the state capital Imphal, the occasion’s preliminary alternative. The BJP-led state authorities had given the Congress conditional approval to flag off the yatra from Imphal, limiting the variety of individuals. The Congress selected the opposite choice.

3. The Thoubal district administration has additionally imposed some restrictions on the occasion such because the length shouldn’t exceed an hour and the variety of individuals shouldn’t cross 3,000.

4. The yatra can be in Manipur for a day and canopy a little bit over 100 km. Ethnic violence between the hill-majority Kuki tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis previously 9 months have killed over 180 and internally displaced 1000’s.

5. Earlier than beginning the yatra, Rahul Gandhi can pay homage to martyrs on the Khongjom Struggle Memorial in Thoubal, inbuilt reminiscence of these killed within the final Anglo-Manipur Struggle in 1891.

6. The influential civil society group Individuals’s Alliance for Peace and Progress Manipur (PAPPM) in a press release on Saturday alleged Rahul Gandhi’s yatra ”is in help of unlawful immigrants”, alluding to the ethnic tensions in Manipur the place the problem of unlawful immigrants coming from Myanmar is extraordinarily delicate and controversial.

7. ”Regrettably, we should acknowledge that the rehabilitation efforts for Kuki refugees in Manipur, inclusive of granting voting rights, have been initiated by successive Congress-led central governments. The first motive behind these endeavours seems to be the strategic goal of consolidating political help by integrating the refugees (unlawful immigrants), into a possible voter base for the Congress occasion,” PAPPM chief M Bobby Meetei mentioned within the assertion on Saturday.

8. ”We want to spotlight that the current violent disaster in Manipur is the results of uncontrolled inflow of Kuki refugees (unlawful immigrants) to Manipur particularly from Myanmar (beforehand Burma) and their rehabilitation in Manipur with voting rights after merger to the Indian Union in 1949,” the PAPPM alleged within the assertion.

9. The Kuki tribes declare the N Biren Singh authorities solely needs to seize land within the hills and so invented excuses to engineer concern among the many Meities towards the Kuki tribes, ultimately resulting in the violence. Following the outbreak of clashes on Might 3, 2023, the Kuki tribes have been demanding a separate administration carved out of Manipur.

10. The Meiteis, nevertheless, preserve the Kuki tribes have at all times been working in direction of demanding a separate land and their protest towards the Meiteis’ demand for Scheduled Tribes (ST) class was solely an excuse to carry a disaster within the state.

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