AFSPA Repeal: Inch by inch
IFP Bureau26 Mar 2023
IFP Editorial: The defence lobby had always been at the forefront of opposing the withdrawal of AFSPA from areas where it is in force and the state have always been reluctant to go against the lobby.
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IFP Editorial: The defence lobby had always been at the forefront of opposing the withdrawal of AFSPA from areas where it is in force and the state have always been reluctant to go against the lobby.
IFP Editorial: The decision of removing the AFSPA from the valley region of Manipur while leaving out the hill districts does not augur well for both the government and community relations also.
The home minister laid the foundation stones of nine schemes worth Rs 1,060 crore and inaugurated 12 schemes worth Rs 300 crore.
IFP Editorial: The decision of removing AFSPA from the valley region while leaving out the hill districts does not augur well for both the government and community relations also. And the BJP government here has to go an extra mile in explaining the Central government decision.
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Between Look East and Act East, the choices of people suffered the most. It is the most undemocratic of its kind. It is only capable of fulfilling the elite, upper caste and Delhi-based politicians.
Social commentator Dhanabir Laishram has called against agreeing to the step taken by parliamentary official language committee chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to impose Hindi in NE states.
The insurgents operating in the Hill Districts are under Suspension of Operation (SoO) while the valley-based groups are in constant hostilities with the government. In such a state of affairs, the government is in dire need of a strong rationale to support its actions and inactions.
NEFIS demanded the statement as well as the steps to impose Hindi on the non-Hindi speaking people be taken back immediately.
The rally, which will cover the eight states of Northeast India - Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram - is organised by the International Friendship Car Rally Association (IFCRA).
The Nupi Marup questioned why the BJP government left out the hills district while withdrawing the draconian AFSPA from the valley districts
Assam, Manipur and Tripura will be connected with Bangkok, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Yangon, Hanoi, Mandalay, Kunming and Chittagong.
IFP Editorial: Manipur had never demanded withdrawal of AFSPA but repeal, as was the demand of the Iron Lady Irom Chanu Sharmila
While Assam has the highest number of COVID-19 death toll of 6639, Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest number of deaths among Northeast states in India so far.
IFP Editorial: AFSPA remains in force in all the hill districts of Manipur irrespective of whether it adjoins the international boundary. So, the reduction of AFSPA is discriminatory.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday informed that the government has decided to reduce the 'Disturbed Areas' under Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in three Northeastern states of Nagaland, Assam and Manipur after decades.
The PIL stated that the latest order for extension of “Disturbed Area” under Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 which was issued on December 8, 2021, was yet to published in the official Gazette of Manipur.
Although the people of the state had been suffering since the past many years under AFSPA, no political leaders of the state are sincerely fighting against the Act, All Manipur Womens’ Social Reformation and Development Samaj (Nupi Samaj) founder president Th Ramani said.
The Assembly "vehemently" condemned the massacre that took place in Oting-Tiru village area in Mon district of Nagaland on December 4 in the "indiscriminate firing" by the 21 Para Special Forces of the Indian Army in which 13 innocent people were killed
Removing the ‘Disturbed Area’ tag is just a one-minute discussion of the cabinet, if the state government’s stand is very clear, MPCC working president K Meghachandra said.