Help to stop profiling us : KIM to PM

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jun 1 : The Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) has claimed that Kukis in Manipur are subjected to racial discrimination in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked the latter to look into their grievances and initiate remedial measures.
In the letter signed by KIM vice presidents Lal Robul Pudaite and Sominthang Doungel, it alleged that the recent statement of Chief Minister N Biren Singh terming Mark Thangkhomang Haokip as a Myanmarese is nothing short of fabrication, baseless and at most insensible.
KIM also said that the Kuki-Mizo communities in Manipur have lost confidence in N Biren’s Government, 'whose hostile and vindictive attitude towards them is truly unbecoming of a Chief Minister.'
Continuing that they are taken aback by the alleged vitriolic attacks of the Chief Minister on the Kuki-Mizo communities, KIM claimed the incumbent Chief Minister is ably assisted by Rajya Sabha MP Leishemba Sanajaoba in resorting to the rhetoric of hate against the Kuki-Mizo 'ethnic groups' in the State.
The brazen attempt to change the historical narratives of a community/an ethnic group through the execution of Forest Acts, and removal of old statues will not change the events of the past nor erase the historical truth of a community, it claimed and recalled that Union Home Minister Amit Shah had assured to address the Kuki-Mizo political issue in the State within 5 years during an election campaign held at Churachandpur on February 23 last.
Claiming that the Kukis have indiscriminately been termed as foreigners and refugees by countless valley people backed by organisations such as the Haomee Federation, Kangleipak Kanba Lup, BJYM and numerous individuals, KIM alleged that 'these hate-mongers utilise various social media platforms to propagate their flagitious ideology, instigating communal hatred and hurting the sentiments of the Kukis-Mizos, and the tribals in general.'
It also claimed that the Manipur Police Department has refused to register any complaint or FIR against such hate spewing individuals and organisations.
Further claiming that the State Government has become Meitei-centric rather than people-centric and such an attitude will not augur well for the BJP party in the years to come, KIM opined that a democratically elected Government must govern without favour or prejudice and discourage corrupt and unjust practices, especially on communal and ethnic lines.
It then said that every citizen of the country has a right to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and by the State Government  irrespective of community, caste, gender or religion.