Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 30 2010:
The United Kuki Liberation Front, one of the signatories of the SoO, has urged the Government of India to create a Kuki Council on the lines of the Bodoland Territorial Council.
It has also sought the setting up of a regiment for the cadres of the armed groups under SoO and to christen it Kuki Regiment.
A memorandum to this effect has been submitted to the Government by the Committee on Friendship Peace and Development, Chandel district on behalf of the outfit today.
The model of the BTC will come under the name of Kuki (Khulmi) Development Council.
Other models mooted include the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council and the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council of Assam.
The memorandum signed by the chairman cum 'commander-in-chief' of the outfit, Lhunkhoson alias SS Haokip was submitted under the initiative and guidance of BJP MP Bijoya Chakravarty.