RPF poohs poohs surrender claim
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 22 2012:
Clarifying that all the 12 individuals who surrendered before the Chief Minister at Hqs IG AR (S) on July 20 in the name of PLA are unknown to the RPF/PLA, the outfit alleged that the so-called surrenderees were hired by Chief Minister O Ibobi from different parts of the State by offering money.
Pointing out that no personal details of the surrenderees were disclosed to the media, the outfit asserted that the people of Manipur are well aware of these surrender dramas and they have clear idea about those people who are taking part in such dramas.
RPF's Secretariat Secretary has bio-data of each and every PLA cadre and there is no report of anyone running away or surrendering to the State in the past one/two month(s), the outfit informed in a press release issued by its department of publicity chief Taohangsu Heiremcha.
In his efforts to please New Delhi, O Ibobi has been deceiving the people of Manipur, it alleged.
The bomb attack at Salang Sabal of July 21 was a response to Ibobi's statement "it is not surrender but home-coming of misguided youths" .
The words 'surrender' and 'misguided' are something unpalatable to the PLA but they always harden the outfit's conviction.
As far as RPF/PLA is concerned, the relationship between the Government of India and Ibobi's Government is nothing different from the relationship shared by colonial masters and their colonies.
During the last 60 years, Manipur State Congress has done nothing good for the mass except creating distrust, insecurity and communal antagonism.
Asking all concerned to stop begging at the door of New Delhi, the outfit called upon all to work collectively in order to establish an independent country based on a sound economic policy.
It further called upon the mass to examine the alleged false steps being taken by the ruling political class and the top bureaucrats.
RPF/PLA has full confidence that the erudite leaders of the society would one day join the movement and lead it from the front, it added.