AMBIGUOUS CONSENT What kind of review? |
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Union Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani, Union Minister of State for Home ID Swami, Home Secretary Kamal Pandey, centre's interlocutor K Padmanabhaiah and other concerned fellows at the centre must be stretching their limbs in the cozy push-back chairs in obvious relief, at least for the time being, hoping that they have killed two birds with one stone. With their agreeing to review the extension of ceasefire truce signed between the centre's interlocutor, K Padmanabhaiah and the general secretary of NSCN-IM, Th Muivah at Bangkok on June 14 last in its entirety including the words "without territorial limits", the central leaders must be hoping that the mass movement against the ceasefire extension in Manipur would gradually lose steam. The state's political leaders and the MLAs, who virtually are in a self-imposed exile in New Delhi, might also be enjoying the luxury of a self-satisfied notion that they have successfully clinched a deal with the central leaders regarding the extension of ceasefire to Manipur. But the fact is that none of the people of Manipur who oppose the extension of ceasefire to the state is ready to welcome the announcement that it would be reviewed within this month, nothing to say about the leaders of the groups spearheading the movement. There are reasons for the people to be doubting. That, first of all the announcement that the Bangkok agreement would be reviewed including the words "without territorial limits" is quite ambiguous. Changing of these wordy “without territorial limits” incorporated in the present agreement is riot the all-important objective of the mass uprising which has seen the loss of 15 lives, injury to hundreds of people and massive destructions in Imphal. The one and only objective of the mighty uprising which started on June 16 last has been very clear--withdraw the centre-NSCN-IM ceasefire from Manipur. If the truce agreement was going to be only reviewed and little changes made here and there, the centre should not have waited for 22 long days till so many deaths and so much destructions occurred.
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Courtesy: Matamgi Yakairol |
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