Jorge Tirkey, Biramitrapur MLA, former M.P Braja Tripathy, Letha Tirky(Convenor)and Deme Oram addressed the gathering. In the public meeting, they vehemently criticized the Government of Odisha for anti-tribal stand and made that “despite the Stay imposed by Hon’ble Orissaa High Court on the 14th Nov notification, the Govt. of Odisha do not feel ashamed of and have failed to withdraw the illegal notification till date. While they are in consistent protest against the move of Govt. of Odisha for last two years raising the issue of violation of the Central PESA, Act, 1996, this time they alerted the Govt. to adopt colorful protest in the coming days if the Government does not consider their demand.
In the memorandum they submitted, they have drawn attention of the Hon’ble Governor on the provisions of Art. 244 of the Constitution of India read with Schedule V of the Constitution which vests the independent legislative authority on the Governors of the states which is wide and plenary. This power of the Governor to make regulations for the ‘Peace and Good Government’ of the Scheduled Area (or part thereof) is not restricted to any entry or entries of the legislature list in Schedule 7, but covers wide area of the subjects which could conceivably fall under the provisions of para 5 of the Fifth Schedule to the constitution”.
While the Hon’ble Governor was absent in the Rajbhawan, a delegation team of 7 representatives i.e Jorge Tirky , Halu Munadari –ex MLA, Letha Tirky (Convenor), Mrs. Lili Kujur(co-convenor), Dewa Kerketta, Deme Oram, Mrs. Tej Kuamri Minz discussed on the issue with the Private Secretary of the Governor and submitted the memorandum.