IMPHAL, August 9: The government will hold talk with Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) on the proposed bill to safeguard the indigenous people after arrival of Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, disclosed Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam.
He was speaking during the 73rd anniversary of Quit India Movement observed by Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) at Congress Bhavan today.
Gaikhangam claimed that JCILPS had been invited for talks by the government three times but there were no positive response.
He exuded confidence that there will be positive outcome during the proposed talk with the JCILPS which is leading the ongoing mass movement for introduction of ILPS or similar law to regulate the alarming influx of outsiders into the State.
During the observance, Dy CM Gaikhangam and several other Congress legislatures led in offering paid floral tribute at the portrait of those freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives during the Quit India Movement.
Quit India Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India on August 8, 1942 by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi against the colonial British colonial rule.
The next day, Gandhi, Nehru and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government. Disorderly and non-violent demonstrations took place throughout the country in the following days.