World Meitei Council Invites Opposing Groups for a Sit-Across Meeting;
Urges State and Central Governments to Accelerate The Process of the Inclusion of Meeteis in the list of Scheduled Tribes
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24 March, 2023 03:41 pm IST
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As part of their efforts to include Meiteis in the Scheduled Tribe lists of India, the WMC said through a press release, dated 24th March 2023, that the committee welcomes any gesture from any group to sit across the table in any venue, maybe at Amity Hall, Adimjati Complex, Imphal, or any venue as convenient to them to clarify the points they usually raise every now and then through the media.
The WMC also urges the government of Manipur and the Centre to expedite the process to include Meetei in the list of Scheduled Tribes of the Indian Constitution.
The press release continued that it is not without reason that WMC has genuinely felt that some people especially from among the non-indigenous people in Manipur are planning to block the genuine demand of the Meetei people to include in the list of Scheduled Tribes by spreading false propaganda. The reasons for this plan are not difficult to understand.
The fact is, Meetei, from being the big brother in history, has now dwindled to a HumptyDumpty due to the misdeeds committed by Meetei leaders only.
Today, the Meeteis are confined in less than 6% of the total area of Manipur, said Yambem Arun Meetei, Secretary, CEC, World Meitei Council. He furthered that Demographics are also posing another crisis. Till the 1971 census, there was Socio-political equilibrium among the communities. However, after the unchecked influx of illegal migrants from across the international border especially from neighbouring Myanmar, the demography showed a fundamental change. The illegal migrants had merged with the local population having matching ethnicity. This has caused unhealthy effects on the Socio-political atmosphere in Manipur.
We know that this migrant community has been planning to carve out a homeland from this tiny state. The students and CSOs have been urging the government to implement NRC.
Not surprisingly this group of people is planting the theory of land grabbing by the Meetei in case Meeteis become ST, even though the Meetei people would not live in the hills even if they are given plots of land free of cost. The intention of the group of people, in reality, is to dominate the hills without any hindrance. They have put up theories such as, Meetei would seize all the advantages of the Naga and Kuki-Chin people provided by the provision of ST as if the indigenous Nagas are fools. But the fact is migrants and their descendants cannot be Scheduled Tribe according to law. And therefore the Government of India has yet to amend the constitution accordingly.
Interestingly this group of people also claim that they are Jewish and after necessary scrutiny, the Israeli government accepted them as Jewish people and accordingly migration began from Manipur to Israel. And the records are available to the government. The point is such things are beyond the idea of Meetei and Naga because being indigenous their mythology and their historical experiences are confined to the region, unlike the migrant population.
However, WMC welcomes any gesture from any group to sit across the table in any venue, maybe at Amity Hall, Adimjati Complex, Imphal, or any venue as convenient to them to clarify the points they usually raise every now and then through the media.
With all the ideas into consideration, WMC urges the government of Manipur and the centre to expedite the process to include Meetei in the list of Scheduled Tribes of the Indian Constitution.
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