Kpi CSOs to picket BJP office, ban activities
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kangpokpi, September 25 2022:
With no response from the BJYM and its parent organisation, the BJP, even after the lapse of their four-day ultimatum in connection with the K Orphanage incident on September 16, the Kangpokpi CSOs decided to picket office of the BJP Sadar Hills from September 26 and continue the ban on any BJP-related activities in the district.
The CSOs also decided to launch various forms of intense agitation if BJYM and BJP fail to respond to the demand of the Leikot area people and the village chief within one week time.
Speaking to the media, CSOs spokesperson Thangtinlen Haokip informed that the decision to lock the office of BJP Sadar Hills in Kangpokpi town and to continue theban on all BJP activities in the district was taken in a joint meeting of the CSOs following the expiry of the ultimatum.
The spokesperson recalled that on September 16 BJYM volunteers and Imphal West police commandos handed over an individual identified as Mangminsei Kipgen to Gamnom Saparmeina police with a bullet injury on his left leg.
He continued that the security forces denied firing any bullet on their part in the incident and it was the BJYM volunteers who chased, caught and handed over Mangminsei Kipgen to the said police station with bullet injury.
The CSOs leader then quoted Mangminsei as saying that when he was found by one of the BJYM volunteers, he surrendered and begged not to shoot him with folded hands but the BJYM volunteer shot him in his leg.
Not only that, they beat him even with a baseball stick and forced him to take photos with the drugs (tablets) they (BJYM volunteers) threw on him which he pushed away 2/3 times.
Mangminsei claimed that the tablets did not belong to him and only one soap case was in his possession.
But, the BJYM volunteer hit him with a baseball stick and forcefully took a picture of him along with the drugs.
Later, in the morning, Mangminsei saw his photo taken along with the drugs the BJYM volunteers threw upon him and also with a small arm that did not belong to him, Thangtinlen Haokip added.
He then wondered as to why the police failed to apply the same law and act upon the one who committed a bigger crime when they could accordingly apply the law upon a drug peddler with such a grievous bullet injury.
It was the BJYM volunteers who handed over Mangminsei to Gamnom Saparmeina police and there were no other parties involved in the incident, he added.
The spokesperson also cautioned the BJP, the mother organisation of the BJYM, not to take lightly their movement and asked to take serious note of the situation before things get out of hand.