AMGSU remembers 'martyr' Tilak Poudel
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 18 2023:
All Manipur Gorkha Students' Union (AMGSU) on Tuesday observed the 9th Martyrdom of Tilak Poudel, who was killed in police action on April 18, 2014 during an agitation against the rape of a minor Gorkha student allegedly by SN Ngoupuni of Poumai Colony, Sangakpham.
In a release, AMGSU recalled that under its aegis, different organisations called indefinite strike on April 18, 2014 from 7 pm onwards.
As soon as the strike began a team of Manipur Police reached the protest spot at Kanglatongbi and fired several rounds towards the protesters during which Tikal Poudel was hit and succumbed to injuries at Raj Medicity, Imphal.
To commemorate his supreme sacrifice, the Union lighted candles and paid floral tributes to the portrait of Tilak Poudel at Kanglatongbi Mandir waiting shed.
Representatives of MGWU, Kanglatongbi Gram Panchayat, Bharatiya Gorkha Parishad Manipur, Nepali Sahitya Parishad Manipur, All Manipur Gorkha Ex-Servicemen Association, Kanglatongbi Gorkha Youth Association, AMGSU Advisory Board members, clubs and women society members of Kanglatongbi and family members of the Poudel attended the observance.
The day was also observed by other federating units of AMGSU, it said.