People of North East States to Fight Common Issues Under One Umbrella

By Brown Nongmaithem
Bureau Chief - IOP, Manipur

Imphal, April 3, 2019: For the first time in the history of North East Region 'North East Forum for indigenous People' has been christened here in a Conference held in Manipur.

This was announced by social activist Ruatiana Fanai from Mizoram, who came here for the conference, in a press conference held this afternoon at the city convention centre, Imphal.

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The two-day conference called NE People's Conference - 2019 had begun yesterday at City Convention Centre, Imphal.

It was attended by different Civil Society Organisations from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, .Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura and unanimously resolved to fight the common issues of North East region collectively.

The conference has finalised an eight points agenda of common issues of North East to fight for.

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The points which the conference has taken collectively read as:

• A collective Forum to be constituted at the NE India level to address the issues that confront the region.
• Each state to nominate three members each as a member of the Core Committee of NEFIP.
• The Forum shall have a state Coordinating unit and to oppose anti-North East people policies of the Government of India that has threatened the lives, resources, habitats and demography of the region.

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The Forum also firmly resolved to stand unambiguously clear to oppose the impending threat that has come from Citizen Amendment Bill, 2016 and resolved to support all the organizations in various states demanding the implementation of Inner Line Permit System, NRC and other alike Influx related legislation in each respective states.

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The conference was attended by a number of civil society organisations (delegates) of the region and emphasized on the inclusion of concepts like 'indigenous' so that the issues like illegal immigration, CAB 2016, rights of North East people can be articulated.

Speaking to media person Y. Dilip Kumar of Manipur at the City Convention Centre here said that most of the issues of NE are same in nature whether they are political, economic or socio-cultural problems.

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He said though the North East are contiguous geographically, unable to unite. But this historic conference has made us a common platform to work and fight as one is a much-needed step, he said.

He also mentioned that Armed Forces Special Power Act and human rights violation in the name of tackling insurgency is a common problem in the entire north east region.

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"While the Chief Commissioner of Manipur abolished Pass and Permit System on November 18, 1950, the people of Manipur have been shouting for re-introduction of the permit system or a similar mechanism but through the Central Government brought out Citizen Amendment Bill, 2016. This kind of step-motherly treatment of the Government of India towards the North Eastern people is unacceptable in any way," he said.

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The NE People's Conference 2019 was held here in Imphal under the aegis of Manipur People Against Citizenship Amendment Bill and the next NE future Conference will be held in Shillong on 27 April, 2019, it said.

(Onkareshwar Pandey is Editor in Chief & CEO, Indian Observer Post and former Senior Group Editor- Rashtriya Sahara (Hindi & Urdu) and also former Editor - News, ANI. http://bit.ly/2mh7hih).

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