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New Delhi, Aug. 12 (PTI): The northeast students’ forum on delimitation along with various other groups staged a protest here on Friday, demanding the Centre to expedite the delimitation exercise in four northeast states. Around 100 to 150 members of various northeastern groups joined the protest at Jantar Mantar, raising slogans like “we want justice”, and “we demand delimitation”. Members of the Delimitation Demand Committee – Northeast (DDC-NE) and Apatani Youth Association and Tanw Supun Dukun — the apex body of the Apatani community of Arunachal Pradesh, were also part of the demonstration. Addressing the protesters, Manipur’s Lok Sabha MP and an associate member of the Delimitation Commission, Lorho S. Pfoze said there is a need to “reorganise” the borders of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur, adding, the Centre has given “very little importance” about the delimitation exercise there. “It i