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started demolishing houses without comes to as right to life is lesser than
showing any mercy. Police fired shots right to forest. This is in gross violation
and tear gas shells against those who of Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.
stood against the demolition. Against Some club organisations, professional
such illegally eviction process, all the bodies, and other groups from different
CSOs under the representative CSOs of backgrounds help them in terms of giv-
Pangals particularly under the leader- ing cash, food, clothes, drinking water,
ship of AMMOCOC president SM Jalal etc. Subsequently, one quandary trait
started second time total shutdown all based on the eviction episode at Kshetri
over the state in which the on-going 24 Bengoon Awang Ching Mamang is that
hours total shut down strike would be Some people some persons consciously or uncon-
extended for another 48 hours all over consciously or sciously tried to take the political edge
the state on July 3, 2018. Police behaved on the issue in such a way that they
beastly character and beat them like unconsciously even electrified the government step
animals while trying to stop the peace- tried to take the for the wrecking of proposed illegally
ful protest called by the CSOs and police constructed houses at the reserve for-
even tried to kill one person. political edge on est area for their equitable interests.
Till now no arrangement of rehabili- This is firmly affirmative that right to
tation or alternative arrangement from the eviction issue in life and livelihood has been deprived
the government side is there. Those af- such a way that they through the different channelization of
fected villagers are staying as homeless state sponsored activities towards the
in the relief camp opened in the pri- even electrified the minority Muslim community.
mary school of Kshetri Bengoon Awang government step So easy to make out that there are
Leikai, Imphal East. Then the question politico-religious hidden agendas to-
for the wrecking of wards the eviction process at the above
proposed illegally said area. Nothing happened positively
• Policy polemics The government should raise in the local dominated areas except
awareness before implementing any policy constructed houses the minority Muslim dominated areas.
There is hardly any valid justifi-
cation to eviction process at the
local and tribal dominated ar-
eas. The eviction circumstance
shows the present govern-
ment’s leaning stance that there
is a sidelining and inbred xeno-
phobia in the politico-religious
affairs on the state’s indigenous
people that can be effortlessly
divulged. Some enticements
and interference from the cur-
rent government side like the
preceding government should
be there to relocate or rehabili-
tate the affected villagers based
on constitutional and humani-
tarian criterion and corpus ju-
ris. On hindsight, there is a need
on part of the government to
prepare a remedial framework
before implementing any policy
on a particular community.
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