“Meiteis too have rights: Manipur is a grievous outcome of the Nehruvian folly of outsourcing Northeast to missionaries”, First Post, May 15, 2023:
“Geographically, the Northeast is situated on the periphery. Unfortunately, this beautiful region has been consigned to the margins of the nation’s mindspace too. In the past nine years, however, kudos to the initiatives taken by the Central government, India has covered a lot of distance in bringing the region to the nation’s mainstream by acting “fast and first” for the Northeast, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised during the golden jubilee celebration of the North East Council (NEC) in Shillong in December last year.
Addressing the event, PM Modi recounted how, in the past nine years, the number of airports in the region has jumped from nine to 16, and of flights from 900 to around 1,900, besides the length of national highways increasing by 50 percent.
The amount allocated for projects in the region, too, saw a threefold increase from Rs 24,819 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 70,874 in 2021-22, as the Union minister for development of north eastern region (DoNER) informed the Lok Sabha in March this year….”
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The kuki and naga tribes encroachment of indigenous land of Meities in Manipur is not recent, it started ststematically during the British aided by various evangelical Christian missionaries. Otherwise the ancient Meitei kings ruled a vast area that included parts of present day Nagaland, Mizoram and Burmese teritories!. If the designs of Nagalim- for greater Nagaland is allowed they will gobble up entire north east displacing indigenous Manipuries, Khasis, Jaintias , Assamese etc. The extremist groups among the Nagas are in league with kukis for serving their nefarious design