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Script agitation in Manipur : New terms to end protests |
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The Meitei Erol Eyek Loinasillon Apunba Lup, spearheading the script movement in Manipur, has expressed its satisfaction with the May 14 cabinet decision to replace the Bengali script with Meitei Mayek but will call off its agitation only if all the volunteers are released from prison unconditionally.
‘We will call off the agitation only after all the script volunteers, now in Sajiwa jail, are released without any conditions,’ said S. Jugeswar Meitei, publicity secretary of the script organisation.
Nearly 400 script volunteers, including Chingsubam Akaba, president of the organisation, and several leaders of the Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur were rounded up and jailed for taking part in the violent campaign. The script backers burnt lakhs of school textbooks, the state’s oldest central library and Imphal’s railway reservation counter.
Akaba and several others were booked under the National Security Act. However, their detention under the act is yet to be confirmed by the state NSA detention board.
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