Newmai News Network Senapati | December 14 Mass rallies will be organised in all the "four Naga district headquarters" on December 15 under the banner of the United Naga Council (UNC) in protest against the creation of 7 new districts "without consulting all stakeholders". The rallies will also to demand the imposition of President's Rule in the "present" State of Manipur and to expedite Indo-Naga peace process at the earliest to its logical conclusion. The rallies will begin simultaneously from 11 am. The rallies will conclude with the submission of memorandums to the Governor of Manipur through their respective deputy commissioners. The United Naga Council (UNC) said today that it came into being to defend and protect "ancestral homeland, identity, history, culture, tradition, custom and time honored institution of the Nagas". The UNC also said that it is a civil organization based on the democratic principles that honours all the communities and nationalities living elsewhere. "We expect respect and honours as we respect others," the Naga body added. The UNC then reiterated that the ongoing Indefinite economic blockade including banning the construction of Trans Asian Railways was being imposed as the Government of Manipur had utterly failed to honour and uphold the Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) signed between the Government of Manipur and Naga people and also, the written assurance given by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India on the issue. "The Naga people will uphold the established position on land and peoples’ right at all cost," it asserted. The UNC then stated that it is a civil organization pursuing its rightful cause democratically, and "it is very unfortunate to accuse UNC volunteers of using fire arms is nothing but a stage manage and just to tarnish the image of the UNC". The UNC then appealed "one and all" not to blame such baseless and unfounded allegation in future. Meanwhile, the UNC strongly condemned the volunteers of counter economic blockade "who had beaten the driver of Tata Sumo Mr. PG. Kagungai black and blue and burning down of the vehicle" between Khumbong and Ngairangbam in the evening of December 13, 2016. LNC-M rejects district creation IMPHAL, DECEMBER 14 (NNN): Liangmai Naga Council, Manipur (LNC-M) has outrightly rejected the Manipur Government order of creating 7 new districts. In a memorandum submitted to Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, the LNC-M expressed its strong resentment that "by carving out these districts, the state government has sounded the harshest judgement particularly on the Liangmai Nagas, who in fact should have been given the priority." It further stated in the memorandum that by further bifurcating the lands of the Liangmai Nagas, they have been made to scatter in the "so called" five districts of Manipur---Tamenglong, Senapati, Imphal West, Kangpokpi and Noney. "With much resentment and humiliation, we have to say that the state government has committed the harshest injustice to the rights and sentiments of the concerned community by its decision to forcibly divide our territories without our mandate and much against our will, thus posing an outright challenge to our identity and very existence. This is very unfortunate for the government to go against the wishes of its citizens," the LNC-M further expressed its resentment. "The Liangmai Naga Council (M) therefore, after having convened an emergency consultative meeting on December 11, 2016 in respect to the declaration of seven new districts in Manipur by the government, has unanimously resolved that, we outrightly reject the government order and will not accede any part of our territory to create new districts under any circumstance, as it was done without consulting the stakeholders, especially the Liangmai Nagas whose ancestral land has been fragmented into different districts without consent", it asserted.
