IMPHAL, May 23 NNN: Thadou Students Association-General Headquarters (TSA-GHQ) has formally become the unit of All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM). Three of the TSA-GHQ ‘officials’ have also been inducted to the ATSUM fold today where an oath-taking ceremony was organised at ATSUM office.
L. Mung Khongsai has become the finance secretary of ATSUM, Paominlien Lhouvum is the new assistant general secretary and Nengkholal Haokip is the new assembly affairs secretary of ATSUM.
Meanwhile, Zeliangrong Students Union, Manipur (ZSUM) and Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) has decided to endorse the agitation of All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) to be begun from June 3 on ‘tribal issues’.
TKS has said that the issues taken up by the ATSUM are genuine and the agitation ought to be supported by all the civil society organisations including from the valley districts while ZSUM stated that its volunteers will be fully prepared to take up the agitation in its jurisdiction. TKS then said the move of ATSUM is ‘timely’.
Meanwhile, the Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong has said today that banned drugs seized by the police should be destroyed before the civil organisations. “For over a month now that the police in Ukhrul had seized the bannned drugs but the custody of the drugs is not revealed,” said the TKS.
The TKS then expressed its anguish over the Naga River Colony episode where several houses were dismantled by the state government for the construction of a 5-star hotel. The TKS terms it as inhuman and brute action of the state government saying, “Enough time was not given for the people to vacate their belongings.”
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