1. Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh, flanked by occasion leaders Okram Ibobi Singh, Keisham Meghachandra Singh, Nabam Tuki, and Gaikhangam instructed reporters within the state capital Imphal that the most important problem earlier than the nation polarisation, financial inequalities, and political authoritarianism.

2. The yatra might be flagged off from a non-public floor in Thoubal district, as a substitute of the state capital Imphal, the occasion’s preliminary alternative. The BJP-led state authorities had given the Congress conditional approval to flag off the yatra from Imphal, limiting the variety of individuals. The Congress selected the opposite choice.

3. The Thoubal district administration has additionally imposed some restrictions on the occasion such because the period shouldn’t exceed an hour and the variety of individuals shouldn’t cross 3,000.

4. The yatra might be in Manipur for a day and canopy just a little over 100 km. Ethnic violence between the hill-majority Kuki tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis previously 9 months have killed over 180 and internally displaced hundreds.

5. Earlier than beginning the yatra, Rahul Gandhi can pay homage to martyrs on the Khongjom Struggle Memorial in Thoubal, inbuilt reminiscence of these killed within the final Anglo-Manipur Struggle in 1891.

6. The influential civil society group Folks’s Alliance for Peace and Progress Manipur (PAPPM) in a press release on Saturday alleged Rahul Gandhi’s yatra “is in help of unlawful immigrants”, alluding to the ethnic tensions in Manipur the place the difficulty of unlawful immigrants coming from Myanmar is extraordinarily delicate and controversial.

7. “Regrettably, we should acknowledge that the rehabilitation efforts for Kuki refugees in Manipur, inclusive of granting voting rights, had been initiated by successive Congress-led central governments. The first motive behind these endeavours seems to be the strategic goal of consolidating political help by integrating the refugees (unlawful immigrants), into a possible voter base for the Congress occasion,” PAPPM chief M Bobby Meetei mentioned within the assertion on Saturday.

8. “We wish to spotlight that the current violent disaster in Manipur is the results of uncontrolled inflow of Kuki refugees (unlawful immigrants) to Manipur particularly from Myanmar (beforehand Burma) and their rehabilitation in Manipur with voting rights after merger to the Indian Union in 1949,” the PAPPM alleged within the assertion.

9. The Kuki tribes declare the N Biren Singh authorities solely desires to seize land within the hills and so invented excuses to engineer worry among the many Meities in opposition to the Kuki tribes, ultimately resulting in the violence. Following the outbreak of clashes on Could 3, 2023, the Kuki tribes have been demanding a separate administration carved out of Manipur.

10. The Meiteis, nonetheless, preserve the Kuki tribes have all the time been working in direction of demanding a separate land and their protest in opposition to the Meiteis’ demand for Scheduled Tribes (ST) class was solely an excuse to deliver a disaster within the state.

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