Guruji's warnings and Manipur violence

Wahengbam Rorrkychand Singh *

The people of Manipur are lovers of art and literature, fond of games and sports, and champions of non-violence and peace. But the ongoing conflict in the State has left all of us disturbed and overwrought for the last five months.

The continuing violence in Manipur, a hill State in India that shares international border with Myanmar, is internal and an issue of local law and order. However, for some irrational “illegal migrants,” it has become a war to legitimise their rights to existence; it has turned out to be a crusade for evangelical forces and a fertile battleground for gangs that are bent on destroying India.

Since day one of the violence that erupted on May 3, evangelical forces have tried their hardest to portray the continuing violence in Manipur as a religious (Hindu vs. Christian) war.

While pondering over the speeches of Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar, popularly known as Guruji, one could connect the dots with the prevailing situation in the entire North East. Guruji’s speeches, compiled as Bunch of Thoughts, have mysteriously forewarned of a similar situation with the prevailing condition in the North Eastern States of Bharat while dissecting the true agenda and fatality of evangelical forces.

In the name of Christ

In Bunch of Thoughts, Guruji quoted a speech of a missionary: “Why should we have spent so much money ? We are here for only one reason, which is to increase the number of followers of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The missionaries’ charitable work is to “proselytise and fly the flag of Christ over the whole of Bharat. Their ambition to carve out a separate Christian State for themselves on the strength of their numbers... is to make this country a province of the kingdom of Christ”, as Guruji said in Bunch of Thoughts. The establishment of the minor bankrupt States of Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Nagaland from Assam, as Guruji revealed in Bunch of Thoughts, is intended to damage the standing of India in the world.

The adoption of the Bible verse (John 8:32) “The truth shall make you free” as the motto of Zomi-reunification and the two fully extended upright crosses of the Kuki-Zo “National flag” to the stars that signify “the birthplace of Messiah” in the Naga National Flag and keeping “Nagalim for Christ” as the motto of NSCN (IM) are not just coincidences but rather the work of evangelical forces.

On the internal matters of Bharat, taking partisan resolutions by the European Parliament hurriedly and conveying the “ready to assist” preparedness of the United States through its Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, and the biased opinions of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) raise a question: is there a covert agenda of evangelical forces in making Manipur a war zone ?

Daniel Stephen Courney, a blacklisted US citizen who was expelled from India in 2017 for propagating Christianity, recently drove to Manipur on a tourist visa. While in the North East, he was seen openly engaging in clandestine preaching operations while posing as a volunteer in various Kuki-populated areas of Manipur and Mizoram.

The Christian community across the world condemned the burning of Churches in retaliatory action by Meitei in Manipur. Massive rallies and meetings were held in Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and various Christian-dominated cities in Bharat.

But the evangelical forces have overseen the atrocities against Meitei Christians, including the burning of houses belonging to the Meitei-Christian community by Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zo-Hmar in Bishnupur, Chandel, Churachandpur, Imphal East, Imphal West, Kakching, Kangpokpi, and Tengnoupal districts of Manipur.

The Meitei Christian Churches Council has made it clear that violence is not between Meiteis-Kukis and Hindus-Christians. But it was between the people of Manipur and illegal Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zo-Hmar immigrants who controlled the Indo-Myanmar border drug trade.

The Communist

The media, religious organisations, politicians, and individuals from all over the world paid Manipur the most attention. Everyone has an opinion—good or negative—on Manipur and the ongoing conflict in the State.

The hashtag #Manipur was used to corrode people’s brains and shatter Bharat in pieces by communist ideology, which professes to be internationalist, on various social media platforms. Freedom is the third most desired need in this insurgency-ridden area, behind food and shelter. Here, Guruji correctly said, “Those who started as devotees of our freedom have now become devotees of Communism.”

The left-leaning media sources provided freedom-seekers with food for thought. Many have criticised the reports of international and National media as well as broadcasters for turning a blind eye to the law and order situation in Manipur. Several media outlets have received FIRs for slanted reporting.

Communists in Bharat stopped at nothing to exploit the predicament and denigrate Hindus. Aishe Ghosh, a former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union and a member of the CPI (M) youth leadership, along with Subhashini Ali, a member of the CPI (M) Politbureau, are leading a smear campaign against the BJP-led Governments in Manipur and the National capital.

The Congress

Even after the country celebrated its 77th Independence Day, the Congress has a lengthy list of historical errors for which the country now pays reparations.

Turning down the invitation from Nepal and Baluchistan to join India and then aggravating the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, the debacle of the 1962 Bharat-Sino War, and refusing to accept the UN’s offer of a permanent seat are few of the long list of Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress Party’s worst historical blunders that remain a mystery till today.

But Guruji said with great insight, “The Nehru Mind is made mostly abroad, and despite his Discovery of India, Shri Nehru never succeeded in catching the spirit”.

This legacy of the Congress continued from Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi, and then Rajiv Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi (Chairperson of the National Advisory Council). It is being manifested in many ways. What we are seeing in Manipur nowadays is just an example of their (Congress) kindness, and that too just after the long-standing Kashmir dispute is being resolved (with the repeal of Article 370). The Congress’s continued existence is in doubt.

The seed for the present anarchy in Manipur was planted while Congress was at the helm of power for both the Centre and Manipur. It may be recalled that the then Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) signed a Suspension of Operation (SoO) with more than two dozen armed Kuki militants under two signatories: the United People Front and the Kuki National Organisation, on August 22, 2008.

Despite the State Government’s refusal, the signing of the agreement with the armed militants was done to appease the minority Christians in Manipur and garner their support in the 2009 Lok Sabha Election. Congress’ extra fondness of the Kuki militant groups (whose anti-National Burmese-based leaders were warmly welcomed with Indian passports) worsened the Kuki notoriety.

After the General Election, the then Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, paid a visit to the Zomi Revolutionary Army’s (ZRA) Muvanlai designated camp in Churachandpur district of Manipur on December 15, 2010. Accompanied by O Ibobi Singh, the then Chief Minister of Manipur, Chidambaram (the Home Minister of Bharat) sat down for nearly an hour to “understand the political aspirations” of the ZRA cadres.

Majority of them (ZRA/ZRO) leaders are Myanmar Nationals. The popular observation in Manipur is that the conflict may have been avoided if Congress had not signed the SoO agreement with the foreign-origin narco-terrorist groups.

Ironically, the same individual (Chidambaram), who facilitated the signing of the SoO with Kuki militants and permitted the growth of narco-terrorism for more than a decade, has now referred to the present carnage in Manipur as “ethnic cleansing.”

Unsatisfied with how Chidambaram perceives the issue, MLA RK Imo Singh criticises the former Union Home Minister Chidambaram for his “one-sided representation” and failure to understand the fundamental problems in Manipur, including illegal immigration, drug trafficking, cross-border infiltration, insurgent groups violating border fencing, and encroachment on reserved forests.

When their all-weather companion Kuki turned out to be a ghost, Congress started its face-saving drama a few days before the monsoon sessions of Parliament but just went into thin air quickly. The Congress party and Congressmen never stopped acting hypocritically.