Chief Justices recommended for Tripura, Manipur & Meghalaya

Agartala, 27 Jan 2013 [IANS] --- The Supreme Court collegium has recommended three Chief Justices for the proposed high courts in the northeastern States of Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya, officials said here on Sunday. The three high courts are likely to start functioning in March after completion of necessary formalities. "We have heard that the Supreme Court collegium has recommended the names of three chief justices to the union ministry of law and justice," Datamohan Jamatia, secretary, Tripura law department, told IANS. "Now the law and justice ministry through the prime minister would send the recommendations to the president for the appointment and notification of the three chief justices," he said. As per the suggestions of the Supreme Court collegium, Justice T. Meena Kumari, a judge of the Patna High Court, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, is being elevated as the chief justice of Meghalaya. Justice Deepak Gupta, who hails from Himachal Pradesh is being elevated as the chief justice of Tripura, and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, a judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court, is being appointed as the chief justice of Manipur. The obligatory amendment to the North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act, 1971 -- the North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2012 -- was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in May 2012, paving the way for the creation of separate high courts in the three states. With this, the total number of high courts in the country will increase from 21 to 24. According to another official of the Tripura law department, the strength of judges in the Tripura High Court will be four, including the chief justice. followed by Meghalaya and Manipur three each that will include the chief justice. "Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, in a recent letter to the union ministry of law and justice has requested the appointment of at least five judges in the new high courts so that divisional benches can function besides single benches," the official added. Jamatia said the Tripura government has already made all the necessary infrastructure to set up a separate high court in Agartala. "We expect the new high court to be functioning by March. Now it is up to the apex court and the union law and justice ministry to issue the necessary notification for the purposes," he told IANS. Currently, the six northeastern states of Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh have benches of the Gauhati High Court. It was called Assam High Court when constituted on April 5, 1948, and initially had its sittings in Shillong, now the Meghalaya capital. It was shifted to Guwahati Aug 14, 1948. Sikkim has a separate high court. Under the North-Eastern Areas (Re-organisation) Act, 1971, Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya became full-fledged states on Jan 21, 1972. "In Tripura alone over 52,000 cases had been pending in different lower courts and 5,000 cases are awaiting disposal in the Agartala bench of the Guwahati High Court," Jamatia said, adding that the necessary infrastructure was ready in all three states for the full-fledged high courts. Lok Sabha member from Tripura, Khagen Das, who had moved a private member's bill earlier for amending the necessary act to set up the high courts, said: "The 30 year-long-struggle for a separate high court in Tripura has finally yielded expected results."

OBCs, SCs, STs to blame for corruption: Ashis Nandy

JAIPUR, 26 Jan 2013 [PTI] --- The Jaipur literature festival today witnessed fireworks after political critic Ashis Nandy made a controversial comment on corruption and people belonging to OBC, SC and ST communities which drew a strong response from the audience. At a panel discussion at the festival, Nandy said, "Most corrupt people come from OBC, SC and ST communities". Journalist Ashutosh, who was among the panelists, and most members from the audience took strong exception to the statement. "This is the most bizarre statement I have heard. The Brahmins and the upper cast can do away with all the corruption but when a low caste person emulates the same thing it becomes so wrong. Such statement is not right," he said. "Most of the people who are doing corruption are people from OBC, SC and ST communities and as long as it remains Indian republic will survive," Nandy said. His comments were met with boos from the audience. However, Nandy later clarified that what he meant was that most of the people getting caught are people from OBC, SC and ST communities as they don't have the means to save themselves unlike people from upper castes. "You catch a poor person selling a black ticket for Rs 20 and say corruption but rich people with corruption of millions get away," he said. Speaking at the first session here, on 'Republic of Ideas' which discussed the idea of Indian Republic, author-journalist Tarun Tejpal said corruption is a class equalizer. "Many people who came from wrong side of society subvert the rules and move ahead using loopholes. That is the only way they have as we made such class barriers," he said. However, a member from the audience said that "corruption is the most abusive power. We can't agree to what you said". Indian Constitution, the panelists observed has tried to do very well to safeguard the freedom of speech by compromising on certain aspects. Richard Sorabji, an author with around 120 books to his credit said, "Compromise is very important for a Constitution. Indian Constitution tried to do very well with safeguarding of freedom of speech. People should be free to say what they want to say against religion but not with deliberate malice. This is a compromise missing in us". "America will do well to adopt India's idea of free speech," he added. Patrick French, whose latest book focuses on India, said that the problems India is facing today are not the creation of Constitution but by problem of bureaucracy. Talking on the idea of India, he said, which neighbouring country you look upto and say you want to live in it. That's the idea of India. The fact that you can't read does not stop you from voting. It was a great idea of Indian Constitution" ================================== Ashis Nandy clarifies stand on dalit corruption remark, cites 'misunderstanding' JAIPUR, 26 Jan 2013 [IANS] --- Leading political psychologist, scholar and social scientist Ashis Nandy clarified on Saturday that he did not mean to hurt the sentiments of the country's disempowered groups with his comment about the equalizing force of corruption and that the scourge was rampant among the backward and dalit communities as well. "I do believe that a zero corruption society will be despotic society. I also said that if people like Richard Sorabjee and I want to be corrupt, I shall possibly send his son to Harvard and give him a fellowship and he can send my daughter to Oxford," Nandy told the media following protests by dalit groups. "No one will think it as corruption. Indeed it will look like supporting talent. But when dalits, tribals and the OBCs are corrupt, it looks very corrupt indeed. However, this second corruption equalizes. It gives them access to top their entitlements As long as this equation persists, I have hope for the republic," he said. Nandy said he was sorry that he had been misunderstood. "As should be clear, there was neither any intention nor any attempt to hurt any community," he said. The scholar said he had been supporting the cause of the marginalized and dispossessed in the last 40 years of his academic and intellectual life. Earlier in the day, Nandy had stirred a hornet's nest at a panel discourse, "Republic of Ideas" when he said: "It will be an undignified and vulgar statement but the fact is that most of the corrupt come from the OBC, the scheduled castes and now increasingly STs. As long as it was the case, the Indian republic would survive." "I will give an example. The state of least corruption is West Bengal. In the last 100 years, nobody from the backward classes and the SC and ST groups have come anywhere near power in West Bengal. It is an absolutely clean state," Nandy said. Later Nandy set the record straight saying that he had meant to endorse fellow panelist Tarun Tejpal's statement that "corruption in India was an equalizing force" after dalit activists descended on the venue to protest Nandy's remarks. Late in the evening dalit leader Kirorilal Meena filed an FIR against Nandy at the Ashok Nagar police station. This was despite festival producer Sanjoy K Roy explaining the import of Nandy's comments to Meena and other dalit leaders. "They have clarified their position and have understood that it was a misunderstanding. Controversies are easily created. Please be responsible," Roy said. A trained clinical psychologist and sociologist, Nandy works cover a variety of topics like politics, public conscience and dialogues of civilizations. Nandy has been honoured with the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize and has been named as one of top 100 public intellectuals by the Carnegie Foreign Policy magazine. Panelist Tarun Tejpal, the editor in chief and publisher of Tehelka said: "It is sad that in a literary festival, people should be attacking the finest intellectual. When you come to literature festival, you are coming to play with ideas." Like in 2012, the Jaipur Literature Festival this year too has lived up its reputation as a platform for free speech and diverse voices with Saturday's controversy over Nandy remarks and a heated exchange between lyricist-MP Javed Akhtar and dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah from Andhra Pradesh over religion. Protests by hardline Muslim groups following speculation that author of "Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie would attend the festival last year had kept the heat on for five days. ================================= Grounded in earlier remarks JAIPUR, 28 Jan 2013 [The Hindu] --- Subsequent remarks made by Ashis Nandy need to be read and understood in the context of what Tarun Tejpal said speaking before Nandy did. Agreeing with Tejpal, Nandy went on to argue that such "corruption" of the excluded — the Dalits, tribals, Other Backward Classes (OBC) and minorities — is inevitable if they are to break out from the bonds of an oppressive web of rules and regulations. He went on to say, referring to both himself and Richard Sorabji, that if they "arranged" to get fellowships for their children at Harvard or Oxford, as part of a trade in mutual and selective favours, none will comment about that, as if it is axiomatic that the fellowship was awarded on the basis of merit. Politicians or leaders of the oppressed strata, being new to the game and relatively untutored in the skills of manipulation, are unlikely to seek academic fellowships as a form of graft, and are more likely to covet and corner licences to operate petrol pumps. These pumps are publicly noticeable and can provoke outrage. Their licensees are linked to their "corrupt" benefactors, who are then condemned by the chattering classes in metropolitan cities. So far so good. Nandy then went on to more provocatively stretch the argument, asserting that it is precisely this kind of "corruption" that has "saved" the Republic and democracy by enabling a degree of social and economic mobility and pluralising the composition of India's elite. Furthermore, he argued, that it is most likely the list of "corrupt" could be inordinately dominated by Dalits, tribals, minorities and OBCs. Despite his prefacing his last remarks, saying that what he was about to say may shock many people, and that he nevertheless wished to stress the point about how we understand corruption, many in the audience (and one on the panel) completely missed Nandy's point, and immediately accused him of casteist bias, calling upon him to withdraw his remarks and tender an apology. Some in the audience demanded that he should be charged under the Protection of Civil Rights Act for hurting the sentiments of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. Competitive outrage follows Nandy's protestations that what he said and meant was completely the opposite of what he was being charged with were not persuasive once the atmosphere was charged with heightened emotions. Competitive outrage, taking on the familiar form favoured by some overly strident and aggressive TV anchors, evidently gives no quarter to nuanced arguments, any irony, or even black humour. When Nandy characterised the former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Madhu Koda (now in jail), as India's first dollar billionaire, he was hardly extolling the virtues of corruption or turning a blind eye to the "perfidies" of upper caste politicians. At best, in an underhand and sly way, he was expressing admiration for the abilities of a tribal leader in matching up to what has hitherto been an exclusive preserve of India's upper caste elite. Accusations of Nandy of being anti-Dalit/tribal/minority groups, the calls for registering a FIR against him, and demanding that he should be arrested would, in our better days, have been dismissed as an irrelevant, if not comic, aside. Such innocent days have faded, unfortunately, into a distant past. So quick are we now to take offence and demand immediate retributory action against alleged offenders that we almost never take a moment to pause, to ascertain the facts, understand what was said and meant, in what context, and to what ends. All we want is action, and now! Signals shrinking discourse Subsequent demands by the Bahujan Samaj Party leader, Mayawati, by the chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes P.L. Punia, and others, to arrest Ashis Nandy, even though none of them was present during the discussion, illustrates the danger of a growing kind of prickliness and intolerance. Worse still, such occasions are used by politicians to signal their commitment to their constituencies and shore up their images. In the process we are left with a diminished public discourse. Even liberals, usually quick to defend "freedom of speech," advocate caution and temperance in the expression of reactions to intemperate allegations of the kind made against Nandy. Is this stance, one wonders, a compensatory guilt, marking what is politically correct, an obverse privileging of the erstwhile dispossessed? Ashis Nandy's choice of words, phrases, and examples can be questioned. He is not an organised and scintillating public speaker. One can also differ with his argument and analysis, for instance, his failure to distinguish between "corruption of the poor" and the "corruption of their leaders," whose subversion of rules often results in them robbing the very poor who are also their constituents. Nevertheless, Nandy's argument that the "rules of the game" have been set by an elite class to which he belongs, which remains a privileged lot, and therefore, that the deliberate subversion of those rules is an inevitable strategy for those striving for survival and upward mobility, certainly has merit. Clamping down on nuanced utterances and elliptical statements of the kind Nandy made will only make us a poorer democracy and Republic. *Harsh Sethi is Consulting Editor, Seminar magazine.

The 65th Zomi Nam Ni 2013 : Open Invitation & Programme Highlights

NEW DELHI IS HOSTING THE MAIN CELEBRATION OF THIS YEAR'S ZOMI NAM NI ZOMI YOUTH ASSOCIATION (Regd. No. 40/1999 under Society Act XXI of 1860) DELHI REGION B-209, Nanakpura, New Delhi - 110 021 OPEN INVITATION New Delhi, January 24, 2013 History is replete with people and nations rediscovering themselves through ages of experience. The discovery of Zomi happened in the 20th century and continues to grow ever wider in the present. God, the help of Zomis in ages past, has blessed the Zomi Nam Ni celebrations held on February 20 each year. The Zomis from all walks of life celebrate this Day to re-affirm and strengthen their bonds of brotherhood and to promote mutually beneficial relations with neighboring communities/peoples worldwide. The largest ever celebration of the Nam Ni in the Capital City of India is being held on February 20, 2013 at Thyagaraj Stadium, New Delhi. The Zomi Council Headquarters has decided to hold the main celebrations here and entrusted the Zomi Youth Association, Delhi Region to organize the event. At a meeting held in Manipur Bhavan on December 9, 2012 under the aegis of ZYA Delhi Region, the Zomi Nam Ni Celebration Committee 2013 was constituted. The Committee led by Pu Biak Lun Shoute as Chairman and Pu K. Thangzalun as Secretary has begun active preparations with enthusiastic cooperation of one and all. The ZYA cordially invites all Zomis in Delhi/NCR and others across the globe to join the Nam Ni celebration. We request our people from all walks of life - Government servants, private employees, businessmen, students, home-makers etc., - to kindly make themselves available to attend this mega event. We appeal to all the connected Churches, civil societies and associations to kindly ensure that no other programme is overlapped with the event. Bus will be arranged from most areas of the city for necessary transportation. Periodic announcements from the Celebration Committee will follow in the days ahead. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance." (VUMSUAN NAULAK) President 9968318955 (NANGLIAN KHAM) Asst. Secretary 9711055405 ========================================================== ZOMI NAM NI 2013 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The 65th Zomi Nam Ni Celebration is going to be held at Thyagaraj Stadium, New Delhi on 20 February 2013. The Celebration Committee and its sub-Committees have been making every effort and leaving no stone unturned to make the event a resounding success. Tasked with the (un)enviable job of preparing the best ever Zomi Nam Ni Celebration, the Program Co-ordinators have been brainstorming, deliberating and debating among themselves to make this celebration a unique and one-of-its-kind event. Full details of the program are being worked out and will be finalized shortly. Following are the highlights of the program: ·    Prayer for Zomi Nam-  All Zomi pastors in Delhi ·    Welcome Address by Pu Vumsuan Naulak, President, ZYA, Delhi ·    Keynote Address by Pu L.B.Sona, Chairman, Zomi Council ·    Display of Zomi Traditional Dresses ·    Showcasing of various Zomi Cultural Dances ·    Speeches from Chief Guest and Functional President (names yet to be finalized) These items will be interspersed with renditions of zawlla, gam ngaihla, etc by select Zomi artistes from Lamka and Delhi. These select artistes and the professional band of musicians are guaranteed to make the crowd go mad and screaming for more, leaving some with tears of joy and nostalgia! Make sure you are there, coz you wouldn't wanna miss having the time of your life! -Programme Coordinators Zomi Nam Ni 2013 Celebration Committee New Delhi ========================================================== They're coming! Union Minister(s) from the Government of India and high profile politicians, MLAs and MDCs from Manipur, distinguished Leaders from the Zomi Council as well as heads of various apex organisations of the Zomi tribes will grace this celebration with their presence. Celebrated Lamka artistes aren't giving it a miss either! ========================================================== Symposium on 'Challenges Facing the Zomis' An Intellectually stimulating symposium on 'Challenges Facing the Zomis" will he held on February 19, 2013 at SSS-I Auditorium, JNU. Dr. Kamkhenthang Guite will present a paper on the Economic Challenges and Opportunites, while Dr. L. Lam Khan Piang and Dr. Vumlallian Zou will chair the talks on the Socio-Cultural as well as Political Challenges and Opportunities facing the Zomis respectively. Noted speakers on the occasion will include Dr. Philip ThangliEnmang, Pu Dal Sian Pau, Pu K. Zou, Pu Vungzamuan Valte, Dr. R. Sanga, Pu N. Neihsial, Pu Kaihau VaipheI, Pu K. Guite, Pu K. Vungzamawi Pu Khamkhokam Guite and others. ========================================================== To ensure your convenience... Free Parking Labels for two-wheelers andfour-wheelers will be distributed in every Zomi church next Sunday for the Nam Ni. In case you intend to bring your own vehicle, make sure you obtain a copy of this label, without which no parking would be allowed inside the Celebration venue. Free transportation – pick and drop – will be made available for the public on February 20. Adequate number of buses will be engaged to ferry all Zomis in the NCR from selected pick-up points. Detailed information will be notified in due course. For any suggestion/queries contact: Bruce K. Thangkhal | 9999397620 Reception, Ushering & Transport Group ========================================================== ZOMI NAM NI 2013, DELHI ORGANISING COMMITTEE CELEBRATION COMMITTEE Chairman: Biak Lun Shoute Secretary: K. Thangzalun Asst. Secy.: Nanglian Kham Finance & Treasurer: Manthianching                    :  Hatngaihvung 1. Executive members: 1.    Vumsuan Naulak 2.    Bruce K. Thangkhal 3.    Dr. L. Lam Khan Piang 4.    Kham Min Thang 5.    Philip Thanglienmang 6.    Th. Lalminlun Vaiphei 7.    S. Hauliankap 8.    S. Khupminthang 9.    Do Khan Khai 10.   Gin Sian Lian Pau – Programme 11.   Haumuanlun Samte – Media & Publicity 12.   Stevekid Valte – Music & Sound 13.   K. Thangpi – Video Coverage 14.   Dr. Kamkhenthang Guite – Accomodation 2.    FINANCE 1.    Manthianching & Hatngaihvung 2.    ZYA President 3.    ZHRF Chairman 4.    Philip Thanglienmang 5.    Chinzason Hangsing 3.    PROGRAMME COORDINATORS 1.    Gin Sian Lian Pau 2.    Thanglemlian Vaiphei 3.    Joyful Tonsing 4.    Siampu Thomte 5.    S. Hauliankap 6.    Ginthanlian Valte 4.    INVITATIONS 1.    K. Thangzalun 2.    ZYA - DR President & Asst. Secy. 3.    K. Ginkhanthang 4.    Chairman, Celebration Committee 5.    PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENT 1.    Vumsuan Naulak 2.    Philip Thanglienmang 3.    Khaibiaklian Zou 4.    Thangkhansiam Naulak 5.    Lam Hanghal 6.    Sata Neihsial 7.    David Sukte 6.    MEDIA & PUBLICITY 1.    Haumuanlun Samte 2.    Eunice Tombing 3.    Phunglianpau Thangsing 4.    Kailallem Duhlian 5.    Lamboi Suantak 6.    Thangzasiam Paite 7.    N Chinsum 8.    Ninglun Hanghal 7.    RECEPTION, USHERING & TRANSPORTATION 1.    Bruce K. Thangkhal 2.    M. Lamlun 3.    Khawmlal Vaiphei 4.    Zamlianmang Samte 5.    T. Thanghnun 6.    S. Khupminthang 7.    L. Thangsuankhup 8.    D. Kamkhanmang 8.    VIDEO COVERAGE    1.    K. Thangpi 2.    Johnlal Guite 3.    Malsawm Tunglut 9.    MUSIC & SOUND 1.    Stevekid Valte 2.    P Thanlian 10. ACCOMMODATION 1.    Dr. Kamkhenthang Guite 2.    D. Kamkhanmang 3.    Nehzamang Simte 11. 19th FEB 2013 PROGRAMME 1.    Dr. L. Lam Khan Piang 2.    Thangkhanlal Ngaihte 3.    T. Kaithang 4.    Salvador Baite 5.    G. Swan Za Lian ========================================================== QUOTE: "Whether Zomis shall sink in or swim across the storming sea of the modern world will depend on their ability to unify the scattered Zomis here and there into one single family or one nomenclature on the basis of their blood relationship and ethnical oneness… The word Zomi is not so selfish as we, who are still the slaves of selfishness…When we like to come under the name Zomi we can think of bigger aims, bigger plans as our American brothers do under the common name of America."  - Pu T Gougin ========================================================== Courtesy: Zomi Nam Ni Official Newsletter Issue No.1| New Delhi, January 27, 2013 | Sunday

Protected area rules' relaxation extended in 3 NE states

Jan 25 (IANS): The Union home ministry has relaxed for another year the protected area rules in three northeastern states - Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland - to allow foreign tourists to visit these states, an official said here Friday.

"The Foreigners (Protected Areas) Order 1958 has been relaxed for one more year beyond Dec 31 last year to allow foreign tourists to visit the three northeastern states subject to certain conditions," a Mizoram government official told IANS. The rules were first relaxed in 2010 and this has been extended every year/

He said the central government relaxed the over five decades old rules to allow foreign tourists, except those from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and Myanmar, in the three northeastern states.

Under the Foreigners (Protected Areas) Order, all areas in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim, and parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are declared "protected areas", and foreigners need government permissions to visit them.

According to a report by tourism organisations, about 58,000 foreign tourists visited the northeastern region last year, up by 18 percent from 2011. It was also estimated that tourist arrivals can increase by 25 percent within a year following relaxation of rules.

Non-domicile Indians and foreign nationals need to obtain either "inner line" or protected area or restricted area permit from the concerned authorities to visit many of the northeastern states excluding Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura.

According to the Mizoram government official, the central government has been studying the permit-related issues following requests of the northeastern state governments.

"The PMO (prime minister's office) has also been examining the permit related matters and is now consulting with the concerned state governments," the official added.

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SBI Rectruitment 2013 for 1500 Probationary Officers(PO)

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Kukis to boycott R-day in Manipur

KSDC to begin Quit Kukiland movement, to boycott R-Day, public blockade from Jan 24 ‘Indian authorities’ asked to withdraw from Kukiland

Lamka (MANIPUR), 22 Jan 2013 [TSE] – Asserting that their submission to initiate a political dialogue with Kuki armed groups on the proposed Kuki State has been deliberately ignored by the Government both at the State and the Centre, the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) has today announced a series of agitation including the launch of Quit Kukiland movement and boycott of any official program of the Indian State including the Republic Day.

“There will be no celebration and official programme to mark the Republic Day of India, or any subsequent celebrations connected with the Indian State in Kuki areas,” announced KSDC general secretary Benjamin Mate today even as he advised local Indian authorities to withdraw from Kuki territory as the Quit Kukiland movement will begin on January 24 at 5 pm.

Simultaneously the public blockade, which was withdrawn earlier will be reimposed from January 24.

The KSDC has also been ordained to intiate a plebiscite of the Kuki people to garner the Kuki people's resolution for a Kuki State, said KSDC.

“The KSDC will boycott Republic Day as a mark of severance of ties between Kuki Nation and the Indian State which had failed to recognize the Kukis' political rights even after 65 years of Indian independence and 65 years of Kuki tolerance. Hence, no Indian law will operate on Kukis living in Kuki territories,” he added.

Local Indian authorities, according to the KSDC, will be held responsible if their call to Quit Kukiland is not complied with.

They also urged the Kuki militants supporting Kuki Statehood to stand behind them and act in tandem with the Kuki people represented by the KSDC.

When the movement comes into effect, a public blockade in all Kuki inhabited areas, which was earlier withdrawn would also be reimposed, said Mate.

Notably, Suspension of Operation (SoO) signatory, the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) has so far held themselves back from extending the SoO signed on August 22, 2008 with the GoI and the State Government.

Detailing the events that forced them to call the Quit Kukiland movement, the KSDC said they have written to the GoI on several occasions seeking a political dialogue for recognition of Kuki territories as a State. As the Government had promised to initiate talks on the proposed Kuki State immediately after the conclusion of winter session of Parliament, the Kuki people have reposed faith in the Government of India and withdrew the public blockade in Kuki areas on the eve of Indo-Asean Car Rally, but the Government yet again failed to deliver on its promise, alleged the KSDC.

In contrast, it accused the Government of circulating the possibility of granting Pan-Naga Council to NSCN (IM) prior to Assembly election in Nagaland.

The KSDC had also claimed that their representatives went to Delhi on January 1 and sought to apprise the Home Minister on the need to settle Kuki political issue before any solution with the NSCN (IM).

‘The Home Minister was too busy meeting the all-party delegation from Manipur, a front that is orchestrated by the dominant Meitei community to fend for the atrocious and oppressive rule of the majority community,’ it said.

Given the neglect shown to the Kuki political demand, the KSDC has decided to launch the Quit Kukiland movement, maintained the KSDC leader.

The Kuki chiefs were even contemplating a rally to coincide with the Indian Republic Day, he said adding ‘we will keep you informed on the details.’

KSDC’s announcement was preceded by a meeting of over 800 Kuki chiefs and Kuki leaders that was addressed by the President of KNO PS Haokip.

|The Sangai Express | Jan 21, 2013|