Imphal, Aug 8: A four members delegation of Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday to press for its demand, which include a separate state for the tribals.
Senior ITLF leader and spokesman Ginza Vualzong said, “We will press for early solutions to our demands as the Manipur situation due to the misgovernance of the Chief Minister N. Biren Singh-led government has been deteriorating fast. Tribals are victims due to the state government’s anti-tribal governance”.
The ITLF leaders claimed that since they could not travel to Imphal from Churachandpur due to the Meiteis threat, they had to go to Aizawl to board the New Delhi-bound flight.
The other demands of the ITLF include state police and commando forces should not be deployed in the hill areas of Manipur, inmates lodged in the jails in Imphal should be shifted to others states of the country and legalisation of a site for mass burial of tribals killed during the ethnic violence.
The move was strongly opposed by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella body of the Meitei community.
Since May 12, 10 tribal MLAs, including seven BJP legislators, ITLF and the influential Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) since May 12 have been demanding separate administration (equivalent to separate state) for the tribals.
In a letter to the ITLF and the COCOMI, Union Minister Nityanand Rai on August 3 appealed to maintain peace and communal harmony.
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