In Makuiluangdi and yonder the lush hills and mountains surrounding the village, the cradle of Luangdimai/ Zeliangrong-Inpui civilization/culture, the echo of Hozam sounded by its patriarchs thousands of years ago can still be heard. This echo informs and inspires the descendants to seek to come together and overcome the barriers working against their interests.
Driven by the common origin, bloodline and socio-cultural system of the descendants of Makuiluangdi, Luangdimai Citizens Forum (LCF) believes in augmenting and dovetailing the common future and destiny of the people. Towards achieving this goal, LCF put a firm footing on their unity through a common point of reference. In one of the steps towards this goal, LCF members met in Shillong 2017 and took a reformative step by seeking to reorder the exclusivity in the 1947 nomenclature “Zeliangrong” by introducing ‘Luangdimai’, the inclusive name for the people and descendants of Makuilongdi Village who are located in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. At the 2017 meet Zeliangrong Citizens Forum (ZCF) was renamed as Luangdimai Citizens Forum (LCF).
LCF is of the opinion that the prevalence of divergent identities and interests articulation among the descendants of Makuilongdi, premised on questionable narratives, had been accentuated by segregated thinking in the society for a long time. LCF is of the conviction that segregated thoughts and actions must not become bottleneck in the people’s efforts to reclaim the past glory of Makuilongdi or towards reaching our goal.
With this conviction and commitment, LCF is happy to sound the clarion call to the descendants of Makuiluangdi, who are now spread across the contiguous ancestral settlements in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland and beyond to rebuild our collective identity, take strong and determined stand in order to understand our past, reshape our present and brighten our future.