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A section of Meiteis have justified the violence, claiming that it was the result of action taken by the state administration to check illegal influx from an open border with Myanmar; poppy cultivation by the hill tribes; and Kuki militant groups unleashing violence. This needs to be checked.
When the first Backward Classes Commission requested a list of tribes to be included in the Scheduled Tribes (modification) list from each state and union territory, Meities did not include themselves.
The protest started at 6 am on Tuesday with the blockade of the old National Highway 6, which connects Kolkata to Mumbai, at Khemasuli in Kharagpur local police station area by Kurmi Samaj West Bengal
The High Court said that a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution can be maintained only by an aggrieved person whose legal or constitutional right has been infringed.