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The article published on 23/9/1997 by JL Chowdhury in the NorthEast Age Bishnupriyas, Meiteis on Collision Course JL Chowdhury Silchar,Sept 22: A 'language war' seems imminent in Assam with the All Assam Manipuri Students' Union threatening to resort to long-term agitation if the government of Assam decides to implement the Bishnupriya language at the primary stage of education. The Bishnupriya Manipuri Students' Union and Nikhil Bishnupriya Mahasabha, on the other hand, postponed their proposed 1000 hour rail road blockade in Barak Valley which was called to put pressure on the Mahanta government to give effect to its notifications of November 14, 1983, and July 21, 1989, to use Bishnupriya as the medium of instruction at the primary level in Barak Valley. The NBMM described the stand of the state as 'quite incomprehensible' and a denial of the democratic and constitutional rights of its people. The Mahasabha refers to the recommendation of the co...

TNN Jul 17, 2012, 12.24AM IST Several organizations representing Bishnupriya Manipuris of Assam under the banner of Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha staged a demonstration, demanding allotment of more funds for the community's development council.  Courtesy: Times of India

Role of the Mahasabha in the Formation of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council (Documentary) Part I Uday sinha Secretary General NBMM A brief history of the community Bishnupriya Manipuris a linguistic minority community are mostly living in large section of rural areas in Assam and Tripura. The Bishnupriya Manipuris trace their ancestry to the Aryans, who flocked to Manipur in hordes in pre historic time and stretched even to adjoining Myanmar. Most of them left Manipur during the period of religious and political upheaval in the state of Manipur in early 18th centuries. Apart from Barak Valley of southern Assam and North Tripura, the Bishnupriya Manipuri now settle in Sylhet district of Bangladesh and different parts of India and abroad. Agriculture is the mainstay of their livelihood. Women weave fine and rough cloth of various designs and take part in agriculture. The community’s mother tongue is Bishnupriya Manipuri. The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha ...

In response to the long pending demand and relentless efforts by the NBMM, the Government of Assam has issued a notification and the gazzete has been published, based on which the Government of India (GoI) will very soon issue the OBC status to Bishnupriya Manipuri community. GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM DEPARTMENT FOR WELFARE OF PLAIN TRIBES & BACKWARD CLASSES DISPUR GUWAHATI. ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR NOTIFICATION Dated Dispur the 7th September, 2010 No. TAD/BC/126/2006/Pt-I/30: In continuation of Govt. notification No. TAD/BC/268/75/37 dtd. 27/12/1975, the Governor of Assam is pleased to enlist a separate identity of the Bishnupriya Manipuri as Sl. No. 30 in the list of Other Backward Classes instead of No. 13 for the purpose of reservation in public services in the state of Assam under Article 16(4) of the Constitution of India. sd/- Principal Secretary to the Govt. of Assam, WPT & BC Department, Dispur. Memo No. TAD/BC/126/2006/Pt-I/30(A) Da...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, June 18: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) lashed out at Bishnupriya Manipuri Surakha Samiti (BMSS) president Anil Singha Gautam for the latter’s statement given to the media stating that the BMSS had stripped NBMM president Dr Devendra Kumar Sinha of all powers, except convening NBMM sessions, that too, not without consulting the BMSS. Reacting to the news item published on the June 5, 2011 issue of The Sentinel under the deadline “ BMSS strips NBMM president of all powers ”, NBMM general secretary Krishnadas Sinha said that the very meeting that had formed the BMSS was not legal as it had no approval of the NBMM, the constitution of which had no provision for convening any “national convention”. Since the convention had no legal footing, the BMSS formed at the convention and the resolutions taken thereof were totally “void ab initio”, Sinha said, and added: “...it is also a distressing matter that there is no similarity between the rep...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, June 10: Reacting to the news item appeared on the June 4, 2011 issue of The Sentinel under the headline “ BMSS strips NBMM president of all powers ”, Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad (NBMSP), Assam State Committee, vice-president Raja Parag Jyoti Sinha (Shimu) said that “every individual has the right to form/float an organization with like-minded people, but that doesn’t entitle them to make irresponsible comments like stripping of the power of the duly elected president of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Masabha (NBMM), Dr Debendra Kumar Sinha”. Bishnupriya Manipuri Suraksha Samiti (BMSS) president Anil Singha Gautam went on record saying that the BMSS had “stripped” NBMM president Dr Devendra Kumar Sinha of “all powers”, except convening of NBMM sessions, that too, in consultation with the BMSS. Singha Gautam had also said that the recent BMSS convention at Patharkandi in Karimganj district had expressed its lack of confidence on the ...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 27: Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahashabha (NBMM) vice-president Anil Singha Gautam has caught NBMM president Dr Devendra Sinha on the wrong foot on the suspension of five office-bearers of the Mahasabha and its literary and cultural wings. At an emergent meeting held recently at Silchar with its president Dr Debendra Sinha in the chair, the NBMM had suspended its vice-presidents Krishnabhallab Sinha and Anil Singha Gautam, Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad (NBMSP) working president Biresh Ranjan Sinha, NBMSP general secretary DILS Lakshmindra Sinha and Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sanskriti Parishad vice-president Banabir Sinha for “anti-organizational activities”. Reaction to the suspension order, NBMM vice-president Anil Singha Gautam said that the modus operandi followed in the suspension was “unconstitutional and illegal”. “According to the NBMM constitution, only the central general Assembly can take disciplinary action against any ...

Courtesy: The Sentinel From a Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 22: At its emergent meeting held today at Silchar with its president Dr Debendra Sinha in the chair, the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) suspended some of its office-bearers and office-bearers of its literary and cultural wings for what it said their anti-organizational activities. Talking to this reporter from Silchar, vice-president of the Assam State committee of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, Simu Sinha, said: “At its emergent meeting today, the NBMM has suspended its vice-presidents Krishnabhallab Sinha and Anil Singha Gautam, Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad (NBMSP) working president Biresh Ranjan Sinha, NBMSP general secretary DILS Lakshmindra Sinha and Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sanskriti Parishad vice-president Banabir Sinha for anti-organizational activities.” Sinha further said that today’s meeting declared the convention called on May 29 at Patharkandi by the dissident...

By Rebati Mohan Sinha, Mumbai The much-awaited demand for the formation of Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council (BMDC) has at last saw the ray of light . But  the general public has been kept in dark, when was the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Assam Government and the NBM Mahasabha, and what are the demands included in it vis-a-vis: (1) What will be the status of the BM DC? (2) Where is the Act or by-law to run the council? (3) What is the tenure of the Council of Members? Is it 3 years or 5 years? Or it is more than that. (4) What is the Organizational Structure?  However, we know the fact that the Development Council is a rural-based one, consisting of villages, and not by city or town to say. So, most of the Council of Members should be from the villages. Let me take the liberty to go bit personal, however it is related to the topic concerned. On my last visit to Guwahati I happened to interact with people interested in Development Council...

Courtesy: The Sentinel (30 September 2010) GUWAHATI, Sept 30: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) has disowned the statements made by Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad (NBMSP) general secretary DILS Lakshmindra Sinha and NBMM vice-president Anil Singha Gautam against Assam Urban Development Minister Dinesh Prasad Goala on the issue of the proposed Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council stating that the statements were made by them without any permission from the NBMSP and the NBMM respectively. In a clarification on the news item appeared in The Sentinel on September 29, 2010 under the headline “Bishnupriya Manipuri bodies slam Goala and back Kartiksena”, NBMM secretary general Uday Sinha today said: “The comments made by DILS Sinha and Sinha Gautam were their personal and not of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad and the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha. Making such comments without any permission from the NBMSP and the NBMM is unwarran...

News Courtesy: The Sentinel (September 28, 2010) GUWAHATI, Sept 28: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) and the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad (NBMSP) have come down heavily on Assam Urban Development Minister Dinesh Prasad Goala for his what they said undue interference in the internal matter of the NBMM on the issue of the proposed Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council. In a press release sent to The Sentinel on September 28, NBMSP general secretary DILS Lakshmindra Sinha said: “It is the fact that the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha had raised the demand for the formation of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council before the State Government in 2003 with the aim all-round development of this economically backward community. But it is because of the personal initiative of MLA Kartiksena Sinha, the State Government decided to set up the proposed Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council (BMDC). It is learnt that a committee headed by Kartik...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, July 2: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) thanked Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for the Cabinet decision taken yesterday to give a separate serial number for the Bishnupriya Manipuri community in the OBC list. Talking to this reporter, NBMM secretary general Uday Sinha from Silchar said: “It’s the fulfilment of a long-standing demand of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community. We thank the Chief Minister for this Cabinet decision on issuance of a separate serial number for the Bishnupriya Manipuri community in the OBC list and the recent notification for the setting of a development council for the wellbeing of the community.” According to Sinha, the Assam Other Backward Classes Commission had issued a corrigendum on March 18, 1996 amending the serial No. 13 of the OBC list through a notification (TAD/OBC/92/94/PT/3) stating that serial number 13 in the OBC list would read as “Manipuri including Bishnupriya Manipuri, Brahmin Manipuri and M...

Guwahati May 29: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) the apex body of the Bishnupriya Manipuris of India and abroad, urged the centre to intervene and ensure withdrawal of the economic blockade to Manipur where life has become miserable due to acute shortage of food, medicines, petrol and other commodities. Talking to The Sentinel over telephone from Silchar, NBMM secretary General Uday Sinha said: “The Centre needs to act to rescue the people of Manipur from the acute shortage of essential commodities. Depriving the people of a state of essential commodities by imposing such a blockade goes against social harmony, and the Centre shouldn’t allowed such an injustice to happen”. Manipur continues to reel under an acute food crisis following the indefinite econonomic blockade enforce by various Naga groups to protest the Manipur Government’s decision not to allow NSCN-IM leader Muivah to visit his birth place. Hundreds of Trucks carrying essential and medicines were strand...

NEWS By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 4: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) thanked Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for the Cabinet decision taken yesterday to form a development council each for the Bishnupriya Manipuris, Nath-Jogis and the Muslim fishermen community of the State. Talking to this reporter, NBMM secretary general Udai Sinha from Silchar said: “The proposed development councils will go a long way for the development of the backward communities concerned.” He also thanked Assam Government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma who had first made the announcement on the formation of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council on the floor of the Assembly, Welfare of Plain Tribe and Backward Classes (WPT & BT) Minister Pramila Rani Brahma and Patharkandi MLA Kartik Sena Sinha, who was working overtime to get the proposed development council sanctioned. The NBMM secretary general also thanked former Union minister Santosh Mohan Dev, State ministers Gautam Ro...

SILCHAR/GUWAHATI, March 29: A delegation of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) today met Silchar MP Kabindra Purkayastha and urged him not to take any drastic action against Patharkandi MLA Kartik Sena Sinha. The delegation also made it clear that the Mahasabha and the Bishnupriya Manipuri Community were behind the MLA. Meanwhile, as many as seven organizations of the community urged the Assam Government to prepare modalities for creation of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council soon. Related article: Chaos in Assam Politics Courtesy: The Sentinel 

It is known to all that the Government of India conducts the ten yearly General Census of the population of India. The census of India will determine various factors like numbers of people speaking different languages, castes, communities, religions, mother tongues of people, education and literacy, marital status, economic conditions, numbers of male and females besides the total number of population. So the preservation of identities of the indigenous people, their languages and culture would largely depend on this census. As regards our community Bishnupriya Manipuri, it is unfortunate that in the last censuses most of our people did not return the name of the ‘community’ and ‘language’ and ‘mother tongue’ etc to the enumerators correctly. As a result the numbers of population, language etc are not reflected correctly in the census as well as in the records of the Registrar General of India (census). The census operation process of the Govt. of India has already been initiated for...

By Pratibha Sinha, Guwahati Photos Slideshows The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha, the apex socio-cultural body and the oldest organisation of the Bishnupriya Manipuris, along with its allied organisation viz. Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sanskriti Parishad, Radhamadhab Sevapuja Committee hold its one-day long special Central General Assembly on 27th February 2010 at Rudra Singha Memorial Sports Complex, Dispur. Delegates and participants in large numbers participated in the assembly from various corners of the country. After about 78 years of formation of the Mahasabha, Bishnupriya Manipuris got the opportunity to witness this Central General Assembly in the heart of Dispur, the capital of Assam which marked a pride in the history of Mahasabha and for the community as a whole. The assembly started with flag hoisting ceremony, flowering to the Shahid Vedi in memory to the freedom fighters who died for the community’s welfare a...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Feb 27: The general assembly of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) that was held at Rudra Singha Stadium playground at Dispur today adopted a slew of resolutions that were submitted to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi through Border Area Development Minister Gautom Roy. The Chief Minister was supposed to grace the occasion as the chief guest, but the he could not attend it due to busy schedule. Social Welfare Minister Akon Bora also attended the general assembly of the Mahasabha. The demands placed by the Mahasabha before the Chief Minister are immediate setting up of a Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council (BMDC) for all-round development of the community, immediate notification including Bishnupriya Manipuris in the list of Other Backward Classes (OBC) in Assam and in the Central list of OBC in view of the judgement of the Gauhati High Court in C.R. No. 3176 of 1999 that was upheld by the Supreme Court in its judgement delivered on March...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Feb 22: The Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM) will hold its central general Assembly with a day-long programme at Rudra Singha Sports Complex, Dispur on February 27. State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has consented to grace the occasion as the chief guest. In the run-up to the grand Bishnupriya Manipuri congregation, the reception committee led by MLA Kartik Sena as the president has been holding meetings in various parts of Guwahati since February 14. According to Sushil Kumar Sinha, working president of the reception committee, so far preparatory meetings have been held at Dakshingaon, Pilingkata, TV Tower, Bamunimaidam, Satgaon and Khanapara. Sushil Kumar Sinha further said NBMM president Dr Debendra Sinha will address the general assembly. Courtesy: The Sentinel [February 23, 2010] image: Government of Assam Join bishnupriyamanipuri.com On Google Buzz Today is Leipakpa (Tuesday)