INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION WITH INDIA WASHED OUT MANIPUR CONSTITUTION

FREEDOM daily
imphal,27 October,1997
front page main headline
Contemporary Debate on the finality of
the Instrument of Accession
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" Delivering the main speech,Dr.Sanajaoba placed the clear position of merger agreement as annexation referring to the National Convention on Merger issue...Discoursing on the Instrument of Accession,he said[that] a consensus was reached at a seminar on 13 January,1996 which held that the Instrument of Accession was superseded with the adoption of Manipur State Constitution Act,1947 ."
" Citing the particular of Junagarh,... he detailed how repeated official and unofficial referenda conducted by the government of India ... merged Jungarh into the then Indian Dominion."
" He also pointed out that the Supreme Court of India rulings from 1964 to 1993... held the states of native and princely states as fully independent and sovereign."
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*** a quote of the day: "I was a freethinker before I Knew how to think"
George Bernard Shaw

##### 13 January,1996 conference consensus :

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INVALID INSTRUMENT OF

ACCESSION

1947

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Conference sponsored by MSSA, MURC, FINS, and CLK on the

13 January,1996 at GM Hall, Imphal reached at the following consensus :

" Manipurna August 14,1947 da maning-tamkhiba,Indian Independence Act,1947 chatnakhiba, Manipur mashagee oiba sovereign Constitution chatnaba hek houkhi-baddageedi, Standstill Agreement amadi Instrument of Accession na Manipur da peeram-ba yaba condition, obligation amadi[ Manipurgee maningtambada

khurou-thangba] mari apumba mashana mut-thatchakhre, shengna chamthokchakhare."

approved by the house without division;

draft by an eminent Law Dean of India on the same day.