FRIDAY, JUNE 06, 2025
Student bodies picket government offices in Senapati district
Published on Jun 2, 2025
By EMN
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- DIMAPUR — Extending support to the office picketing in the Naga hill districts called by the All Naga Students' Association, Manipur (ANSAM), the Senapati District Students’ Association (SDSA) together with its federating units, including the Mao Students’ Union (MSU), Maram Students’ Union (MKS), Poumai Naga Students’ Union (PNTM), Thangal Students’ Union (TAJ) and Zeliangrong Students’ Union, Senapati Zone (ZSU-SZ), on Monday shut down government offices and banks in the district.
- The SDSA had fully endorsed the ANSAM’s clarion call for office picketing on June 2 and the 3rd, an update stated.
- The SDSA and its five federating units (MSU, MKS, PNTM, TAJ and ZSU-S) joined the 48-hour democratic agitation against the scrapping of Free Movement Regime (FMR) and border fencing, citing infringement on Naga rights and survival.
Student volunteers seeing locking the entrance of the Mini
Secretariat Complex, Senapati, on Monday.- The SDSA asserted that it would strictly implement the office picketing in its jurisdiction as a show of solidarity towards fellow Naga brethrens spread across the “imaginary international border.”
- The association appealed to all the government departments in its jurisdiction to refrain from attending or operating their respective offices, apart from the flood relief/report or other related activities.
- During the picketing, the student volunteers carried banners and placards, some of which read ‘Nagas are one-No fencing in between,’ ‘Nagas are one-We will live together as one people,’ ‘Nagas and their lands are inseparable,’ ‘No fence between families,’ ‘Respect our rights & history,’ and ‘Modiji, Keep your words.’
- The volunteers locked various departments operating in the district headquarters, including DC office, DRDA, ADC and banks like the SBI, UCO, PNB, IDBI, CBI and BOI.
- Meanwhile, addressing media in Tamenglong district headquarters, the ANSAM president drew the attention of the United Nations, Unrepresented Nation People’s Organisation and other, highlighting Nagas' unique identity and concerns over India's policies undermining their rights and heritage.
- The president informed that ANSAM, along with UNC, Naga Women Union, and tribal hohos, took up the agitation across Manipur's hill districts, protesting FMR scrapping and border fencing in Naga areas.
- “We cannot accept such divisive policies of the Govt. of India, contradicting the official agreements of the Naga nation and the Govt. of India.
- “We urge the GoI to respect the official agreements signed
between the two entities, respect the Framework Agreement by implementing the
competencies in letter and spirit and immediately revoke the scrapping of Free
Movement Regime in our ancestral land, immediately revoke and stop the imposed
border fencing construction in Naga homeland,” he said.
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