Set the internal wrongs right Sorry state of the MPP
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: February 03 2016 -
The people have rejected it and perhaps worse than this are the inner contradictions threatening to pull the plug.
This is the Manipur Peoples’ Party, one of the oldest regional political parties in the country.
Not a single MLA in the Assembly election of 2012 and there is nothing yet to suggest that it will make a mark in the 2107 Assembly election. It was not always like this.
There was a time when the MPP was the political party which could take the fight to the Congress and even ruled the State on more than one occasion.
However in the last decade or so, it has seen its fortune dipping and one can recall the many instances when its members were more busy with infighting rather than coming out with any concrete plans on how to restore the confidence of the people.
Today it is not even a pale shadow of its former self and this calls for some radical internal changes.
A pity it is that it lost its regional appeal decades back with the Federal Party of Manipur (FPM) coming to the fore to replace the void left by the MPP.
A party bereft of its basic identity, that is a regional political party, and gradually it became clear that there was nothing much to differentiate it with other political parties such as the Congress and this invariably meant writing its own epitaph.
What is the party’s structure ? What are its characteristics ?
Ideally there should be easy answers to these, but today it is no longer so in the case of the MPP.
It has failed to capitalise on its regional appeal and while this may be due to the political wind sweeping across the country, it would do wise not to forget that next door Nagaland has been under the Naga Peoples’ Front for the third consecutive term.
In Mizoram too the Mizo National Front is still a force to reckon with though it has seen better days.
In Assam the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) may be on the wane but it is difficult to say that it has gone the way of the MPP here.
And good to remember that it is the AAP which is in power in Delhi while the AIADMK is still going strong in Tamil Nadu and so is the Telugu Desam in Andhra Pradesh.
Something is seriously wrong with the MPP and this is a fact which should sink into the heads of its leaders.
The internal wrangling came out in all its ugliness on February 2, 2016 when a group from within the party announced that a senior member has been elected as the president of the MPP, only to be refuted by another group from within. Correct the internal flaws and set sight on the 2017 polls.
The MPP should not lose sight of this.
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