Manipur Unrest: Women vendors to hold prayers
IFP Bureau16 Sept 2023
A prayer ceremony for those on frontline to be held at Salairen Sidabi Epagi shrine at Khwairamband Keithel.
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A prayer ceremony for those on frontline to be held at Salairen Sidabi Epagi shrine at Khwairamband Keithel.
Sharing the grief of innocent people affected by the violence in Manipur, women vendors decided to close shops at Khwairamband Keithel till Thursday.
“Around the three sheds, the street vendors are selling the same things including the vegetables, fruits which are being sold inside the keithel. Because of them, sales inside the three sheds are affected,” protesters said
Pangal Street Vendor Association have questioned as to how the police personnel, who are to protect people, have beaten the woman who was selling banana at Khwairamband Keithel, Thangal Bazar without verification.
Khwairamband Keithel Street Vendors’ Welfare Union alleged that president of Road Side Street Vendors Ksh Tama misled the people and government with a false statement that street vendors were allow to vend at Khwairamband temporary market shed.
A new crop of leaders have come up among the women vendors Khwairamband Keithel at and they somehow maintain good relations with the present dispensation. Yet, their silence to the new development is indeed surprising given the legacy and spirit of our market women throughout history..
Condemning the prohibition of the ‘8 am street vendors of Khwairamband Keithel’, AITUC-MSC urged the minister concerned to withdraw the transfer of the street vendors to Lamphel Supermarket.
The state and its agencies simply refused to understand that, it was because of the very harassment by police and municipal authorities that the Union government came up with the idea of having a law to give the street vendors protection.
The drive was conducted after holding a general body meeting of AMMOCOC and PSVA on April 8, said AMMOCOC president SM Jalal to the media.
IFP Editorial: Till date, the main women markets in Khwairamband market have remained closed since March and the state government is yet to come up with a viable SOP for the women markets.
After a hectic political sojourn in the capital, the Chief Minister on his return came with a surprise gift for the women.
Today, amid the struggle to survive the Coronavirus attack, nobody is talking about what happened to the market women of Khwairamband Keithel in Imphal, the capital of Manipur who obliged Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s appeal for voluntary closure of the three crowded main markets and temporary market sheds to prevent the spread of Covid 19 in the state.