WMC raises ST call

IMPHAL, Oct 17 : The World Meetei Council (WMC) has appealed to the State Government to send the necessary recommendation to the Centre for inclusion of the Meetei community in the list of Scheduled Tribes.
In a statement issued today, WMC said in the next few weeks, they will show it to all the concerned that Meetei people are native indigenous people whose ethnography would qualify the necessary criteria given by the Lokur Committee and added that neither the Manipur Government nor any entity can do injustice against the Meetei people by denying or opposing their rights to be included in the list of Scheduled Tribes which could provide necessary protection of the community.
WMC also cautioned all those who try to misrepresent the Meetei as an advanced, competent and competitive people who do not need Constitutional protection.