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Assam Rifles to parade poor youth in fake surrendering drama
Tehelka.com | Ratnadip Choudhury, 13 June 2011
The youth will be made to surrender in front of CM O Ibobi Singh, while arms have come from Kuki militants. Around 45 youth from Thoubal, the home constituency of Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh, will surrender before him on Tuesday, 14 June, creating a stir and winning the Chief Minister brownie points building up to the Assembly poll fever, which is scheduled for the year-end.
The only problem is that they do not actually belong to the Azad Khan faction of the People’s United Liberation Front (PULF), as is being claimed. They are, in fact, daily-waged labourers, mechanics in tyres shops, rickshaw-pullers and over-ground collaborators.
This fake surrender, not the first in the state by a long shot, will be accompanied by the laying down of 25 sophisticated arms, which were never actually in their possession.
Compounding the farce is the fact that it is being played out in full public view.
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