Manipur: Demand to divide Manipur into three union territories, BJP MLA said – only then violence can stop
Kuki leader and BJP MLA Paulenlal Haokip says that to establish peace in Manipur, the state should be divided into three union territories. In an interview to PTI, Haokip has advocated giving political and administrative recognition to Manipur’s ethnic isolation. Let us inform that the leaders of the Kuki community have already demanded a separate administration for the people of the Kuki tribe. This demand of the BJP MLA is also in a way a support to the demand for a separate state by the Kuki leaders.
meitai organization against partition
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and COCOMI (Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity), a group of Meitei organizations, have opposed any demand for division of Manipur. According to political experts, the central government is also not in support of the division of the state. Critics of Haokip’s suggestion say that the bifurcation would create separate regions for the Kuki, Meitai and Naga tribes in the state, but would cause trouble in places where there is a mixed population.
More than 160 people have died in the violence so far
Let us tell you that the violence in Manipur started on May 3 and is continuing till now. So far more than 160 people have died in this violence and thousands of people are facing displacement. The population of the Meitei community is about 53 percent in the state and they mostly live in the Imphal Valley. At the same time, the number of people of Naga and Kuki tribes is 40 percent of the total population and they live in the hilly areas of the state.
Haokip, the BJP MLA from Sakot seat in Churachandpur district, and other Kuki leaders believe that the majority community is controlling the allocation of state resources. The Kuki leader also expressed displeasure over the declaration of the tribal land as a protected forest area and alleged that the tribals were not being given their rights.
This is the allegation of the Kuki community
The BJP MLA said that this year the Manipur government had bulldozed many Kuki villages in the name of protection of forests under the Forest Act. There is also resentment in the Kuki community due to the ban on the delimitation report. Kuki leaders believe that considering the population of their community, their number of seats may increase after delimitation. Meitei organizations also accuse the Kuki community of being involved in drug smuggling and of entering India illegally from Myanmar. Although the cookie community rejects these allegations. Kuki MLA Haokip says that the Kuki community had also fought with the British and people from the Kuki community were involved in Subhash Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj.
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