‘Noise protest’ rocks Manipur valley districts, police fire tear gas
Thousands of residents in Manipur, India, participated in a 'noise protest' to express frustration over the government's handling of ongoing ethnic conflicts. Protesters demanded the implementation of the National Register of Citizens and criticized the failure to restore normalcy in the region.
Why it matters
It underscores the deep-seated civil unrest and public dissatisfaction with security and governance in the Manipur region.
GUWAHATI: Thousands of people across Manipur’s five valley districts took to the streets on Friday evening for a “noise protest” invoking traditional Kangla practices to express public anger over the ongoing crisis in the state and against govt’s failure to restore normalcy.Police fired tear gas shells at Kangla Fort in Imphal as tensions mounted. No injuries were reported.The protest was called by a civil society organisation, Federation of Haomee, which asked people to make noise between 7:30 pm and 8 pm.Residents banged utensils, struck electric poles with hammers, beat drums, sounded vehicle horns and sirens and shouted slogans.The protest was also at Singjamei, the assembly constituency of chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, where residents joined the demonstration against govt’s handling of the prolonged ethnic conflict.Many protesters then marched towards Kangla, the ancient political and cultural centre of the erstwhile Manipur kingdom, a few metres from Lok Bhavan and the chief…
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