IMPHAL, Oct 8 NNN: The Committee on Protection of Tribal Area Manipur (COPTAM) those tribal candidates in the Panchayati Raj election whether elected or defeated should resign from their respective posts within the month of October and surrender to the COPTAM or any appropriate authority.
In its meeting, COPTAM has resolved and demanded that the state government should totally cancel and withdraw all the Panchayati Raj election process from any part of the hill districts of Manipur at the earliest.
Another resolution has been that all the concerned chiefs/chairmen/headmen of tribal villages, concerned MDCs/ MLAs and Hill Area Committee (HAC) should take the responsibility to ensure that no tribal voters and villages in the hill districts are included in the Panchayat/Zilla Parishad elections and valley assembly and Parliament constituencies in future.
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