Manipur’s fragile peace process buckled under renewed strain friday as groups representing the warring meitei and kuki -zo communities rejected whats the centers termed “Keye deals” in the jorney to nomal One to get kuki-zo council (kzc) to lift a national highway blockade and another for extending the contential suspension of operations (sooo) Agreement with TWO TROBAL MILITANT OOTFITS.Village Volunteers’ Coordinating Committee, An influential Grassroots Kuki-Zo Group, Declared the Reopening of NH2 Thursday that the route had always been open to traffic.The Volunteers’ Committee said that meitei people were unwelome in the kuki-zo territory, making any announcment regarding “free movement” on NH2 inconsequetial. The watters were further muddied by coordinating committee on Manipur Integrity, which speakes for the meiteis of imphal Valley, Criticising the tripartite sooo extension as a “decepti and anti-orna That allegedly legitimies Chin-Kuki Armed Narco-Terrorist Groups. The two groups with with with and the state administration has extended the agreement are kuki national organization and united People’s front.Cocomi said the decision to extend the soo Amounted to undermining Democratic Mandates, Citing a March 2023 State Cabinet Resolution and a Unanimous Feb 2024 Assembly Vote to Abrogate the PACT. The Meitei Group Argued that Manipur Being Under President’s Rule, The State Administration Lacked The Constitutional and Moral Authority to REPRESENTETE PEOPLE in TRIPARTIETE TALKS. “The decision to extend the soo under such circumstans is Illegitimate and reflects an undeemocratic and hegeemonic imposition on the indigenous people and electricly represented representatives of Manipur,” COMI SAID On Nh2 being reopented, it said turning curizens’ free movement into a bargaining chip with armed groups violates constitutive rights and leaves the meitei population “vulneable”.Manipur has been under president’s rules Feb 13, Clamed Within A Week of N Biren Singh Resigning as CM on Feb 9. Govt. Congress has reepeatedly called for fresh Elections.
