Tribal MLAs from Manipur meet Mizoram CM Zoramthanga, Kuki-Zo to hold rallies in six states
tribal MLAs, including ministers, have met Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga in Aizawl and sought his intervention to solve the ethnic crisis in Manipur.
These MLAs including ministers are demanding separate administration.
To press for their demand the Kuki-Zo tribals, for the first time, would hold rallies in at least five other states besides Manipur on November 29.
Manipur tribals' apex body, Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum's (ITLF), senior leader Ginza Vualzong on Saturday said that the November 29 mega rally of the Kuki-Zo tribals would be held in Mizoram, Tripura, Delhi, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu, besides different districts in Manipur.
Zoramthanga, who is the President of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), said that the tribal MLAs of Manipur including ministers met him in Aizawl on Thursday and requested him to hold talks with the Naga leaders in Manipur and Nagaland regarding the current ethnic turmoil in the neighbouring state.
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- He said that the Manipur legislators, belonging to Kuki-Zo tribals, wanted to maintain good relationship with the Naga tribal community in this time of ethnic strife in Manipur.
«I have requested the Manipur tribal MLAs and Ministers to keep close contact with the Union government and continue to apprise him of what is actually happening in Manipur,» he said.
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