ILP is PM Modi's "biggest gift to Manipur", declares Amit Shah

IMPHAL: Blowing the poll bugle in Manipur Capital Imphal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared that the Inner Line Permit (ILP) has been the biggest gift by the Prime Minister to the people of Manipur. "They got it (ILP) even without asking for it," the home minister said.

It needs mention here that the state was promised the ILP amid raging riots against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which seeks to fasttrack citizenship to non-Muslims from neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

"Modiji realised that Manipur is not having the Inner Line Permit when other states surrounding it had it which is injustice to the indigenous people and he found a way", Shah told a gathering here.

He added that "it was a matter of great satisfaction for us when Manipur got it (ILP) on December 11, 2019."

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Inner Line Permit (ILP) is an official travel document issued by the concerned state government to allow travel of an Indian citizen into a protected area for a limited period.

It is obligatory for the citizens from outside those states to obtain a permit for entering into the protected state.

Shah arrived here from Guwahati Sunday afternoon on the last leg of his three-day visit to the North East and laid the foundation of seven projects, including a medical college at Churachandpur, inaugurated the Thoubal Dam and dedicate the Bishnupur-Tupul-Thoubal-Kasom Khullen Road to the public.

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