IT News
Imphal, Jan 14,
Socialists Students Union of Manipur (SSUM) in a press statement has stated that the Chief Minister of Manipur N. Biren Singh has mislead the people of the state by stating that the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 will be implemented only in Assam as the Manipur Peoples’ Protection Bill 2018 will protect the people of the state. The said Bill which the Chief Minister had high hope in keeping the people.
SSUM said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 will reduce the indigenous people to minority and the so call Manipur Peoples’ (Protection) Bill will have nothing to do with the people. The SSUM also recalled on how the Chief Minister had compromise the Manipur’s territory along the Indo-Myanmar border in Tengnoupal district as an appeasement policy to the central leadership.
SSUM said they will organise mass sit-in-protest at various part of the state from January 20 until the Bill has been withdrawn.