NEW DELHI: Veteran Manipuri filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma on Sunday said that he would return the Padma Shri as a mark of protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, terming it “anti-Northeast”.
The 83-year-old director, known for Manipuri films such as “Olangthagee Wangmadasu”, “Imagi Ningthem” and “Ishanou”, was bestowed with the country’s fourth highest civilian honour in 2006.
He said the plea of the Northeast people to not let the bill pass was not being heard by the Centre.
“The bill is against the interest of the Northeast and its people, especially in Manipur. All the leaders of the states in the Northeast have already requested the Central Government to reconsider (on the bill’s passage). (AGENCIES)
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