OFFICE OF THE
ALL NAGA STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION, MANIPUR
Oking : Tahamzam, (Senapati) – 795106
Email: ansam1970@gmail.com
PRESS COMMUNIQUE
25th February, 2026
The All Naga Students' Association, Manipur (ANSAM), strongly disagree and records its most vehement and categorical repudiation of the recent pronouncement by the Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillol Apunba Lup (MEELAL) mandating the compulsory inscription of vehicle registration numbers in Meetei Mayek script across the State.
This directive is an egregious imposition — illogical in reasoning, constitutionally infirm in substance, and democratically indefensible in principle. It constitutes not cultural renaissance but coercive particularism. In a constitutional polity governed by the supremacy of law, no organisation may arrogate unto itself the authority to enforce the linguistic emblem of one community upon the entirety of a plural and heterogeneous society.
Manipur is an intricate civilisational mosaic, inhabited by numerous indigenous communities, each endowed with its own venerable linguistic heritage and cultural sovereignty. The imposition of a singular script upon all communities is a direct affront to identity, dignity, and the constitutional guarantees safeguarding equality and cultural freedom. Such unilateral insistence subverts the federal spirit and corrodes the delicate equilibrium upon which democratic coexistence rests.
The State remains in a condition of acute fragility, having endured manifold unwanted and grievous incidents rooted in perceptions of cultural domination. To resurrect and rigidly advance this contentious mandate at so precarious a juncture is profoundly injudicious. It portends misunderstanding, exacerbates communal fissures, and imperils the already fragile peace process amidst prevailing turmoil.
ANSAM unequivocally declares that it shall not acquiesce to any illogical or unconstitutional demand emanating from any organisation or community that infringes upon the inalienable rights and collective identity of the Nagas and the tribal populace as a whole. Cultural affirmation must never metastasise into hegemonic imposition. Should any deleterious or dire consequences arise from this obdurate insistence, MEELAL must bear the moral and civic responsibility for the ramifications of its unilateral action.
The Association therefore urges the Government of Manipur, in the gravest possible terms, to intervene forthwith, restrain such unconstitutional impositions, and uphold the constitutional covenant of justice, plurality, and coequal citizenship before the situation deteriorates further.
INFORMATION & PUBLICITY
ANSAM
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