CORCOM asks MNP president to clarity
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, February 24 2016: Taking strong exception to the statement of the president of Manipur Nationalist Party, B Angousana Sharma who had issued a statement on February 19 that no force on earth can divide Manipur from India, the Co-ordination Committee (CORCOM), has posed a a number of posers and asked him to give the answer to the people ofManipur (hills and valley) or else CORCOM will take him as an enemy ofthe people.

In a statement, the conglomerate of different outfits said that B Angousana Sharma had casts aspersions on the recent wide protest staged at JNU and Jadavpur University against the rampant human rights violation in India by stating 'University Professors should not use Manipur to preach anti-India' stand.

This very statement shows that Angousana is a man who has no idea of his identity and roots and is bent on garnering favours from India, alleged CORCOM.

There is no opposition to Angousana taking his own personal stand point, but he should know that in issuing such a statement he is on the side of India which is bent on destroying the people of Manipur, added the statement.

Since India has not been able to defeat the armed movement launched to restore the lost 'sovereignty' of Kangleipak, it has started using different methods, said CORCOM and added it has started using 'fifth columnists' to sow seeds of discord between the different communities of Manipur.

B Angousana Sharma (a former army man of India) is one such element who has been used by the adversary to spread canards against the armed movement, said CORCOM.

How Manipur was 'annexed' by India after the British left is something known to all, alleged CORCOM and added that Manipur existed as a sovereign Nation for thousands of years with both the hills and the valley contributing their mite in building the Nation.

For thousands of years, Manipur had its own governance, administration, religion, economy, philosophy, science, said CORCOM and added that for long Manipur faced many an adversary, entered into treaties.

This is the gift of the forefathers, added CORCOM.

However after 1949, Manipur was 'annexed' and thereafter began the programme to cripple the economy of the people and the place and make them come under the belief that they have to depend on India to survive.

So from destroying the economy of the people, making them believe that they have to depend on India to survive and bidding to destroy their origin, a new policy and programme has been unleashed, said CORCOM.

The new policy is to dilute the identity of the people through racial assimilation by pumping in their more than 125 crore population into the place, it alleged.

The result of the 66 years of India's rule is the emergence of a dependent people who cannot think or do anything for themselves, said CORCOM.

Of the 27 or so lakh people (including 8 lakh non-local people), the rate of unemployment is today more than 8 lakh, said CORCOM and added that today in the short span of 66 years of India's rule, there has emerged a number of people who are under the impression that they cannot survive without the goodwill of India.

This is against the fact that the forefathers did survive and made their own mark as an independent people for thousands of years.

What is more, the divide policy too has taken deep roots, said CORCOM and added that instead of trying to face the challenge unitedly some are trying to take refuge in the provisions provided by India by wilfully climbing down.

The only way for the people of the land to be at the same level as the international community is to win back the lost sovereignty of the land, said CORCOM and added that the ongoing armed movement is allowed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

However through deceit and under a programme, India has been trying to raise a number of elements like Angousana and in trying to blunt the International Covenant it has been using the term and usage of indigenous people under the Article 46 of the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and include the Meiteis in the list of Schedules Tribes.

On the other hand the Constitution of India does not specify what is indigenous people.

The drive to include Meiteis in the list of Scheduled Tribes and accept the Constitution of India and make Manipur a tribal State and Angousana is one such man who has been used to go after this, alleged CORCOM.

The design of elements like Angousana will never bear fruits, added CORCOM.

What Angousana should know is the point that despite the numerous policies and programmes to keep the people subjugated there are many who have risen to the top in many fields.

This can be known from the fact that there are many from Manipur who have made a name for themselves in the developed countries of Europe and the USA.

Directly posing a series of question to Angousana, CORCOM asked whether he takes pride in the fact that the Indian army have been violating human rights, violating the chastity of womenfolk, that people of WESEA are being racially discriminated in other parts of India.

Will these atrocities stop if the Meiteis are included in the list of STs and Manipur is made a tribal State, asked CORCOM further.

B Angousana Sharma should answer these questions or else he will be taken as the enemy of the people, said CORCOM.

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