'Rahul unfit to be PM'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 21 2014 :
Observing that AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi did not speak a single word about the people ' s cry for repeal of AFSPA from all over Manipur, TMC candidate in Inner Manipur P/C Sarangthem Manaobi alias Khoiranthaba has asserted that Rahul Gandhi, by ignoring the people's sentiment, only exposed that he is unfit to the hold the post of Prime Minister.
Speaking to some media persons today, former IPS officer S Manaobi who took voluntary retirement to fight the election noted that Rahul Gandhi mentioned about repeal of AFSPA from seven Assembly segments of Imphal Municipal Council but he neither acknowledged nor gave any comment on the people's sustained movement for repeal of AFSPA from all over Manipur.
By skipping the burning issue of AFSPA, Rahul Gandhi only exposed that he has no clear understanding of the aspirations and desires of Manipuri people.
Saying that no single Congress MP evertabled the issue of AFSPA in Parliament, Manaobi asserted that Rahul Gandhi's recent visit to the State was aimed hoodwinking the mass.
Irom Sharmila has been fasting in protest against AFSPA and it is no attempt to commit suicide.
Keeping her injudicial custody for such prolonged period is a form of torture, he asserted.
Imposition of family planning measures among Manipuris particularly Meiteis, killing of civilians with impunity guaranteed by AFSPA and incessant influx have not only created demographic balance but are threatening Manipur's territorial boundary.
There is no native Manipuri in the top echelons of civil secretariat and the State is facing severe economic crisis.
There is a great apprehension that all the indigenous people of Manipur may disappear in the sea of influx that may invade the State with the arrival of railways.
In case the Government fails to bring out a policy to avert such a situation, Manipur would simply vanish into history, warned Manaobi.
Given all these possible scenario, it would be right to implement Inner Line Permit System in the State.
He further alleged that the Congress party is responsible for all the major issues like gifting away of Manipur's territory, merger into the Indian Union, border fencing etc.
"I decided to fight the Lok Sabha election on TMC ticket which has seven MLAs in the State Assembly in order to save Manipur from the hands of Congress", Manaobi asserted.