The Joint Action Committee Against Anti-tribal Bills has spurned the offer of Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh to hold talks on performing the last rites of the eight tribals, whose bodies are lying in the morgue for the past 562 days. Their demand is that the government should first withdraw the Bills.
Nine tribals were killed in protest against the Protection of Manipur People Bill, the Manipur Revenue and Land Reform (7the amendment) Bill and the Manipur Shops and Establishment (2nd amendment) Bill— in September 2015.
