CIRCA to submit proposal to government of India

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Dec 1

Coalition for Indigenes’ Rights Campaign (CIRCA) Manipur, has come to a decision to submit a proposal for the restoration of pre-merger political status of Manipur to be submitted to government of India.

While speaking to media persons at the Manipur press club, Convenor CIRCA Manipur, Somendro Thockchom said after 28 months of campaign on restoration of pre-merger political status, the CIRCA has decided to further debate on the political future of Manipur.

“Government of India should recognise the prevailing Manipur-India conflict as a political issue that requires a political solution. Furthermore influx of immigrants from the neighbouring countries and also from mainland India should be set as an agenda in any future political negotiations,” he said.

He mentioned that the exploration and exploitation of natural resources should be ceased until a satisfactory resolution is brought to the prevailing conflict in Manipur.   

Somendro said that the United Kingdom must intervene to bring about a settlement of the conflicts in Manipur since it has a hand in the controversies and confusion surrounding the political status of Manipur in the post empire period.

Somendro said CIRCA believes that the solution to our problems should be transformative not prescriptive.

It is also a firm conviction of CIRCA that the issues regarding indigenous nation is not monopoly of a single group and the involvement of the people is a must in search for lasting solution to the conflicts and crisis plaguing the state, he added.