Internet services cut in Manipur as tribal protest rallies turn violent | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The authorities on Wednesday suspended internet services suspended in Manipur for the next five days after fresh violence was reported in Bishnupur and Churachandpur amid violence following protests by tribal groups opposing move for inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the ST category.
Total public curfew prohibiting the movement of any person outside their respective residences has also been imposed Churachandpur district. The Bishnupur district administration has imposed section 144 across the district in view of the law and order situation.
“Assembly of five or more persons, which is likely to turn unlawful, and carrying of sticks, stones, firearms without a valid license, weapons or objects of any description which can be used as offensive weapons, prohibited in the whole jurisdiction of Bishnupur district with immediate effect,” the order said.
Earlier today, thousands of tribals turned up at a ‘Solidarity March’ called by a students body in all the ten hill districts of the state to oppose moves for inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the ST category.
The Meiteis who make up 53 per cent of the state’s population inhabit the Manipur valley, which accounts for about a tenth of the former princely state’s land area, and claim that they are facing difficulty in view of “large scale illegal immigration by Myanmarese and Bangladeshis”.
The hill districts which accounts for much of the state’s land mass is inhabited mostly by tribals – including the Nagas and Kukis – mostly live are protected from enceroachment by valley people by various laws.
Total public curfew prohibiting the movement of any person outside their respective residences has also been imposed Churachandpur district. The Bishnupur district administration has imposed section 144 across the district in view of the law and order situation.
“Assembly of five or more persons, which is likely to turn unlawful, and carrying of sticks, stones, firearms without a valid license, weapons or objects of any description which can be used as offensive weapons, prohibited in the whole jurisdiction of Bishnupur district with immediate effect,” the order said.
Earlier today, thousands of tribals turned up at a ‘Solidarity March’ called by a students body in all the ten hill districts of the state to oppose moves for inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the ST category.
The Meiteis who make up 53 per cent of the state’s population inhabit the Manipur valley, which accounts for about a tenth of the former princely state’s land area, and claim that they are facing difficulty in view of “large scale illegal immigration by Myanmarese and Bangladeshis”.
The hill districts which accounts for much of the state’s land mass is inhabited mostly by tribals – including the Nagas and Kukis – mostly live are protected from enceroachment by valley people by various laws.
