Manipur Conflict: Khwairamband Keithel Mothers Give Five Days Ultimatum to Union Government;

Seeks the Status of Pre-Merger Agreement in Manipur On Failure

HY News 15 July, 2023 05:30 pm IST

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Joint Co-Ordinating Committee for Peace Khwairamband Keithel organized a meeting over the deaf silence of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and others concerned on Saturday afternoon. The mothers decided to launch a whole Imphal Valley Rally Protest over the present conflict in Manipur.

Mema, a woman in the meeting and a member of the Committee said that the Meiteis are disappointed with the silence of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and others concerned over the present conflict in Manipur. She also questioned the Union government over taking sides of the Myanmarese armed militants over the Meiteis.

It’s been over two months since the conflict broke out on May 3, said She, but the Central Government has taken no positive steps so far. Neither the Prime Minister speaks a single word over it nor does the Home Minister after his controversial proposal to the CM of Manipur to control of the hill areas by the Centre and the valley areas by the CM – escalating the act of killing and arson on both sides. However, the central government has failed to keep law and order in control, nor can it protect the lives and territory of Manipur.

Further, the Mothers asked if the Meiteis are not Indians. Why are the central forces taking only one side and why is the union government acting as if nothing is happening? Thousands of Meiteis have been displaced, their houses and temples being burnt down, and many of their loved ones have been killed in the conflict.

Manipur was an independent princely state but was merged into India on September 21, 1949. We brought our land when we merged with India then. However, the Kukis haven’t brought anything when they came here in Manipur. And so they have no right to demand separate land or administration. But beyond our expectations and hope, the union government is taking sides with the Kukis. If the union government can’t consider and treat Meiteis as Indians, allow us to be Independent as we used to be before we signed the merger agreement, added the mothers.

While on the other side, Nirmala, Secretary Lukmai Sellup, condemned the videos and the news in which a mob of Kuki women demolished an Assam Rifles vehicle. She called it a drama and said Assam Rifles and other Central Paramilitary forces are closely related to the Kukis, and they have been taking special sides with the Kukis. Moreover, She said, the Assam Rifles regularly receive a huge share of revenue from the growth of poppy plantations and its allied business.

She furthered, it is because of the close link of the Kukis with the Assam Rifles that the soil of Manipur is spoiled by massive poppy plantations. Subsequently, many of our youths are also spoiled because of them.

She also demanded the resettlement of the Meiteis in Churandpur, Moreh, and Kangpokpi and enforcement of state forces at the same places.

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