False propaganda, says UNLF
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 19, 2012:
Alleging that different Indian agencies have been pursuing several strategies against the UNLF, the outfit, reacting to a claim of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which reportedly projected the outfit as a group of extortionist, asserted that it was part of India's propaganda warfare.
Apart from harassment of innocent peasants, entrepreneurs and sympathisers on the false charge of having nexus with the outfit, the NIA has not been able to do any damage on the UNLF, claimed a press release issued by the outfit' senior publicity officer Ksh Yoiheiba.
After framing a National Economic Policy for Manipur, the UNLF has been encouraging establishment of small and medium enterprises so that Manipur can have its own economic base and in the process peasants and labourers can enjoy a meaningful life.
To achieve economic freedom outside the Indian economic policy is a part of the liberation movement, said the outfit.
On the other hand, the Government of India has been systematically uprooting indigenous economic institutions of the State while keeping alive of form of economy purely based on supply and contract works, chared UNLF and added that this is aimed at eroding the ability to be self reliant.
It was under such policy that the NIA accused AEGIS, a fruit processing unit in Manipur, of receiving investment from the UNLF, and attempted to ban the unit.
As for the indigenous produces which have become items of contract - supply for Indian agencies, it is the inalienable right of the Manipuri people to levy tax on these produces, the outfit added.