State considering petition moved by RPI (Athawale) leader and forwarded by Centre, seeking ST status for Meiteis while questioning the same for Kukis on ground of them being “outsiders”
One hopes this does not end as a case of putting the horse before the cart, but a point has been delivered. as the sangai express has been consistently maintaining since the evening of may 3, 2023, the demand that the meiteis be included in the scheduled
K yugindro singh, sh janaki sharma & m manihar singh (independent researchers)apropos the article under the heading ‘st status for meiteis was considered and rejected in 1982 and 2001, government records show’ which appeared in the online
To focus only on the last three months and not give credit to the BJP’s double-engine government for the excellent work done in Manipur in the last six years reflects the Opposition’s rabid hypocrisy
The first flashpoint came in the form of the arrest last year of a human rights activist from Churachandpur, the tribal district that's the epicentre of the current conflict. Since then, matters have spiralled out of control