Will not enter into dialogue with State Government: ITLF
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03 July, 2023 10:56 am IST
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The Indigenous Tribal Leaders’s Forum (ITLF) on Sunday have reiterated their stand of not entering into any dialogue with the present State government.
In a statement, the ITLF said they are not aware of any contacts between the Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and CSO groups with regards to the claimed by CM N. Biren Singh of having dialogue with Kuki communities, in an interview to a news agency.
Further, the ITLF said they were not consulted by the United People’s Front and Kuki National Front before announcing the lifting of blockade of National Highway no.2 at Kangpokpi.
The United People’s Front and Kuki National Front on Sunday announced that they would lift the two-month-long blockade of the national highway in Kangpokpi district.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the United People’s Front and the Kuki National Organisation — both of which come under the 2008 Suspension of Operations agreement with the Centre and the state — said the blockade would be lifted with immediate effect “to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential commodities in the state”. The statement said the decision was taken in view of Shah’s “deep concern to restore peace and harmony in the state and [to] alleviate the plight of people in general”.
In the statement, the groups also said they “appreciate” that central forces have been deployed in most areas at the border of the hills and the valley, and that they would ensure that their volunteers are withdrawn from all such places once the “deployment of central forces is completed in all vulnerable areas”.
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