LAMKA, September 25: The team of Autonomous District Council Churachandpur members led by their chairman Lamgkhanpau Guite returned from the national capital yesterday and made a report of their meetings with several central leaders including President Pranab Mukherjee during their stay there.
The team had met the central leaders and spoke on the protest of the tribals of Manipur due to the passing of the three bills in the State Assembly on August 31.
The ADC team had also met MPs like PA Sangma, Neiphiu Rio and general secretary of NSCN (IM) Th Muivah.
According to Guite, `The leaders we met were all ears to our grievances and promised to monitor and take necessary steps to check our grievances.` He told womenfolk staging dharnas that with co-operation of the Manipur Tribal Forum, the team had conducted a protest in front of the Manipur Bhawan in Delhi where Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh was also present.
`We are and will always be ready to be in the service of the people through the JAC which was set up for this purpose,` he said.
He further urged the JAC to continue its good work and act in such a manner that the rare tribal unity remains the main focus which is the high point of the present protest which even the central leaders had appreciated.
It was also learnt during the meeting with the MP from Nagaland, that the State government had stopped the observers from centre from visiting Churachandpur and asked him to go back without visiting the district, he said.
On the other hand, protestors had stopped a doctor who was going to his duty at the district hospital`™s casualty department and had to be helped by this correspondent to reach the hospital.