IMPHAL, August 14: The Congress Legislature Party has resolved that the State government will involve the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System in the preparation of a new ILP bill which is acceptable to the people and to table it in the State Assembly at the earliest in order to safeguard the indigenous people.
The decision was arrived at during a meeting of the CLP held at the Conference Room of the Chief Minister`™s Secretariat today.
The meeting began at 3 pm and continued till 9 pm.
Elaborating on the resolution of the CLP meeting, Education and CAF & PD minister Moirangthem Okendro who is also the spokesperson of the government said that the marathon meeting discussed at length the different forms of agitation launched by the people in pursuance of the collective demand for implementation of ILPS or a similar law to regulate the alarming influx of non-locals into the State which has posed a potential threat to the existence of the indigenous people.
He further said that the meeting minutely discussed the draft bill submitted by the government constituted Drafting Committee with Revenue, Law & legislative Affairs minister Th Debendra as its chairman.
During the meeting, the Congress legislatures unanimously resolved to sit down with representatives of JCILPS to draft an acceptable bill within the ambit of Indian Constitution, he said.
After drafting it, earnest efforts will be put in to ensure that the bill gets passed in the Manipur Legislative Assembly without further delay, the Minister maintained.
Okendro said that the CLP meeting also condemned the peace accord signed between NSCN (IM) and Government of India on August 3 in New Delhi as it was done in a hurried manner without consulting the State Chief Minister.
The CLP meeting concluded that the peace accord should not compromise on geo-political, socio-cultural and economic boundary of the State at any cost and that the agreement should be implemented in Nagaland only, he said.
The minister went on to inform that the meeting firmly resolved to ensure that the territorial integrity of the State is not put at stake by the peace accord.