IMPHAL, March 18: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) has announced `non-cooperation movement`™ against non-Manipuris in the State starting from tonight indefinitely.
According to a press release of JCILPS, the non-cooperation movement means not to rent spaces or rooms to non-Manipuris, not to buy from shops owned by non-Manipuries, not to sell non-Manipuri items in Keithel and not to eat at their stalls, stop non-Manipuri vendors from roaming freely in localities or leikais etc and also to put a halt on their business activities.
The release said the Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant Workers Bill, 2015 is deceptive. Instead of safeguarding the indigenous population it is designed for the welfare of the visitors which will in the end challenge the `right to life`™ of the indigenous people, it said.
These resolutions were taken at a meeting of JCILPS today attended by its component Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), its steering committee members and other executive members.
It said the meeting thoroughly discussed on the Manipur Regulation of Visitors, Tenant and Migrant Workers Bill 2015 which was passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly on March 16.
The meeting unanimously resolved that the Bill passed by the Government should not be implemented in the State as the indigenous population of the State cannot be protected by it.
It said the indigenous people of the State needs to act by their own to defend themselves from extinction.
The meeting which was attended by representatives of various component CSOs of JCILPS, strongly condemned the Bill saying it was passed against the wishes of the people.
The process of turning the Bill into Act by getting the governor`™s assent and to publish it in the Gazette should be stop at once, it said.
It said JCILPS condemns CM Ibobi`™s act of discarding the recommendation submitted to the government by collecting opinions from the scholars, politicians, academicians, social activists and other experts by taking a time of five months.
JCILPS assured that while enforcing the non-cooperation movement there will be no violence.
It has appealed the public to follow these instructions voluntarily.
According to UN laws as well as Indian Constitution it is the birth right of the indigenous people to safeguard themselves, it said while appealing the people of the State to extend their support in the movement.