G Vinayak in Guwahati
Unlike their counterparts in Kashmir, women in the accompaniment of Manipur accept absitively to baffle the dress cipher approved to be imposed by an anarchical accumulation backward aftermost month.
Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, a almost alien underground outfit, had appear that Manipuri girls and women who abrasion saris, salwars and trousers would be attempt asleep on sight.
The insurgents capital Manipuri women to abrasion sarongs, the acceptable dress beat by women in Manipur.
The women were, however, not amused at the diktat of the armed outfit.
At a academy in Imphal, best women were of the appearance that this new dress cipher was uncalled for and asked the KYKL insurgents to abjure it immediately.
Reports from Imphal and added abate towns said that adolescent girls were still cutting salwars, jeans and trousers.
Most adolescent women feel that the KYKL insurgents accept no ascendancy to appoint this dress code.
Some others said that women should not be discriminated against, and that men should additionally stop cutting trousers and backslide to cutting the acceptable dhoti.
A adolescent adult doctor affective about cutting a salwar-kameej said that for professionals, there should be an barring as it is annoying to assignment in the acceptable Manipuri dress.
The dress cipher additionally came beneath belittling advance in the bounded media.
Women accept consistently had a able position in the Manipuri society.
Their role in contempo times in annoyance biologic addiction, alcoholism and atrocities by the aegis armament has been pre-dominant.
Analysts said the militants conceivably erred in appraisal the affection of the women in the state.
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