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GUWAHATI
The Thadou Inpi Manipur (TIM), the apex assemblage of Manipur’s Thadou community, has urged the Bharatiya Janata Party to undo what it described arsenic the harm caused by the National Democratic Alliance successful 2003 done the instauration of the “Any Kuki Tribes” (AKT) class successful the State’s database of Scheduled Tribes.
The TIM said the contiguous NDA authorities indispensable rectify the blunder by the archetypal BJP-led NDA authorities much than 2 decades ago, “to guarantee fairness, nationalist security, and the integrity of Manipur.” The organisation had earlier said foreigners, specifically those who transverse implicit from Myanmar, person been utilizing the “redundant” AKT class to beryllium considered Scheduled Tribes successful India.
“A legislative enactment is needed successful Parliament to delete the AKT category, introduced by the NDA authorities successful 2003, from the Scheduled Tribe’s database of Manipur,” TIM’s associated wide secretary, Manggou Thadou, said connected Friday aft members of the organisation submitted a memorandum to elder Bharatiya Janata Party leaders B.L. Santhosh and Sambit Patra successful Imphal connected Friday (November 14, 2025).
The TIM squad besides sought the inclusion of Thadou representatives arsenic morganatic stakeholders successful immoderate aboriginal dialogue, bid talks, oregon government-led dialog platforms to guarantee semipermanent bid and reconstruct governmental stableness successful Manipur. It stated that Manipur deserved a democratically elected authorities aft a prolonged play of President’s Rule, successful effect since February 13.
The TIM further asserted the chiseled taste individuality of the Thadou community. “Thadou is not Kuki, oregon underneath Kuki, oregon portion of Kuki, but autarkic of Kuki,” it said.
Manipur has yet to retrieve from the taste struggle betwixt the Kuki-Zo and the Meitei communities, which has claimed much than 250 lives and displaced much than 62,000 radical since May 3, 2023.
