Imphal/Guwahati:
A key tripartite assembly was held on Thursday between the Centre, the Manipur authorities, and the United Naga Council (UNC) over the Naga physique’s demand for rollback of “arbitrarily created” seven districts.
A senior Manipur House Division officer mentioned that after the threadbare dialogue within the assembly, it was mutually agreed {that a} proposal can be introduced by the representatives of the state authorities within the subsequent spherical of tripartite conferences, scheduled in April.
In Thursday’s assembly, held in Naga-dominated Senapati district, Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) adviser for northeast affairs AK Mishra, Manipur Chief Secretary Prashant Kumar Singh, House Commissioner N Ashok Kumar, and 4 Naga leaders together with UNC chief NG Lorho and common secretary Vareiyo Shatsang have been current.
The earlier spherical of tripartite talks held on November 29 final yr didn’t yield any consequence.
The seven districts have been created underneath controversial circumstances in December 2016 by the then Congress authorities when O Ibobi Singh was chief minister. He was a three-term chief minister from 2002 to 2017.
The UNC, which is the highest physique of the Naga tribes in Manipur, had fiercely objected to the choice to create the brand new districts.
The UNC has mentioned the seven new districts encroached upon ancestral lands of the Naga tribes.
It was additionally underneath Mr Ibobi’s Congress authorities in Manipur that Any Kuki Tribes (AKT) have been included into the Scheduled Tribes (ST) class in 2003. The AKT shouldn’t be a definite tribe just like the Thadou and lots of different tribes that are collectively often called Kuki.
The tripartite talks come at a time when the Kuki tribes and the Meiteis have been combating since Could 2023 over a spread of points resembling land rights and political illustration.
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