IMPHAL, April 16: A former general secretary of the All Tribal Students’ Union, Manipur has warned to take legal actions in case the concerned authorities failed within a week to nominate not more than two persons for each of the Autonomous District Councils of Manipur (Hill Areas) as is mandated by a statutory provision under section 4 (3) of the Manipur (Hill Areas) Autonomous District Council Act 1971 will go to Law Court on the failure within a week to fulfil the mandatory.
Speaking at a press conference held today at the Manipur Press Club, former general secretary ATSUM W Shinglai said that the election of ADC of the six districts in the hill areas was conducted in the month of May 2015.
Accordingly, the results were declared on June, 2015, he said and added that the members are now discharging their official duties under the Manipur (hills areas) District Council Act 1971 amended in 2008.
By virtue of section 4 (3) the administrator may nominate not more than two person, not being persons in the service of government, to the members of any district council, he said.
However, no one has so far been nominated by the State Government as members of any District Council, he added.
He claimed that hence the six ADCs are unable to carry out their sovereign duty effectively, and added that the government’s attitude and inaction of not nominating any person has defeated the sprit and intention of the ADC.
Nine months have lapsed since the election and the State Government has never taken up the needful steps to nominate the said two persons for each District Councils, he said.
In this regard a legal notice has been issued to the Parliamentary Secretary of Tribal Affairs & Hills & Schedule Caste by advocate Rosemary Panmei on March 15 but there has been no positive response from concerned authority, he added.
The non-compliance of the provision of the Act has amounting to negligence and deliberate insulting to democracy, he claimed.