Manipuri body demands constitution of development council through polls

A CORRESPONDENT

SILCHAR: Alleging that the existing nominated body of Manipuri Development Council had failed to serve the aspirations of the community, the United Manipuri Association, Assam (UMAA) sought the intervention of the state government to constitute the council through election. Further, UMAA reiterated its demand for inclusion of the community as Schedule Tribe (Plain) status. Maintaining that the Manipuri community of the state possessed all the distinctive features as laid down by the constitution like Ahoms, Rajbanshis, Moran, Motok for attaining the ST status, UMAA, in a letter to the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma urged him to fulfil the demand they had been raising since 2012.

The state government constituted an interim Manipuri Development Council by nomination in 2011. But various organizations belonging to this backward community now alleged that the nominated body of the Development Council could not serve the aspirations of the Manipuris in terms of social, educational, ethnic, and cultural advancement. Sarat Chandra Singha, the President, L Chingthangkhomba Singha, the General Secretary of the UMAA, along with others wrote a letter to the Chief Minister urging him to constitute the development council by the democratic process of election.

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