An MLA bites dust in his constituency
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: June 20 2011 -
MLA K Meghachandra representing Wangkhem Assembly Constituency had gone to call on loyalist Md Maniruddin Moulvi who had just lost his annual pile of straw in a fire.
It is assumed he had gone to strengthen the camaraderie with the Moulvi, and one can/conjecture his anticipated smooth moves of appropriate words of anguish over the loss of the Moulvi, his seemingly careless opening of his wallet and his nonchalant plucking away of currency notes to aid the Moulvi in need, and also the doting sheep eyed Moulvi with a firm hand on the money and a ready tongue to talk. This is not a conjured up scenario, but it really took place on June 19, 2011 at Yairipok Singa village.
The drama that unfolded ran quite against the script. The villagers pelted MLA K Meghachandra with stones and he would definitely come a cropper if the police did not intervene. The heat against the MLA was turned on from political flanks but that he escaped serious injury within a hair's breadth compels more attention.
It will be a long long time before MLA K Meghachandra saunters into Yairipok Singa village. It would be like Charles Chaplin, in 'City Lights' being knocked out by an untended boxing glove which accidentally slipped off from the peg. As it were he had just been rushed to the rest room in a stretcher after having been belted black and blue by a professional boxer.
There is little to comment on the police firing. It was after all done to prevent the lynching of a MLA by a mob on a lynch over drive.
For us people, we care little of tepid explanations by MLA K Meghachandra why he ought not to be faulted, or rabid explanations of men tearing out their beards in order to substantiate the demand why the head of MLA K Meghachandra would look better on a platter.
For us, the real message is, MLAs do be careful the day of judgment it seems, is around the corner. Good luck guys.
VS Atem stares on a blank canvas
VS Atem, former 'chief of the army staff' of the NSCN-IM's armed wing, and presently convenor of decision making body of the NSCN-IM is not optimistic of any favourable decisions (for the NSCN-IM) to emerge from the forthcoming GoI-NSCN-IM talks scheduled on June 21 in New Delhi.
This statement might have been the result of ruffled feathers of a proud NSCN-IM gerontocracy. Either way VS Atem's outlook is not optimistic. Perhaps this is why the demand of 'an alternative arrangement' has come up. We visualize the difficulty of negotiations between inequal parties.
By now the NSCN-IM will have realized the difficulty of negotiations going on the way one expects to. But since the lot has been cast we have to wait till an agreement is reached.
Once in a while people like VS Atem, definitely not speaking on behalf of the GoI, is there to remind us that the Government of India, it seems, has other issues to address to other than the 'Indo-Naga' problem.
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