'KSO misinterpreting FB post of CM'
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, August 04 2021: People's Alliance for Peace and Progress (PAPP), Manipur has rebuked Kuki Students' Organisation, (KSO) GHQ for choosing to interpret the Facebook post of CM N Biren Singh in a divisive tone when the said post has no such divisive or communal content in it.

In a release, PAPP secretary Longjam Sanjay Meitei stated that as far as they understand, the post appealed for stopping deforestation and poppy plantation so that landslides as well as mudslides could be prevented.

Is it not the duty of a chief minister to ask people to stop deforestation and poppy plantation? Is it not true that there is mass destruction of forest in the hills of Manipur due to poppy plantation? Is KSO GHQ supporting the poppy plantation and deforestation in hills? .

If such a post which is meant for the welfare of the public in interpreted in such a distorted way, then they are left with no alternative but to suspect the intention of KSO, the secretary opined.

PAPP continued that with regards to other issues mentioned in the statement of KSO GHQ, they should rather reflect on the activities of some organisations claiming to be working in the interest of Kukis.

They have hurt the sentiments of Meiteis and other communities very strongly, he said, adding that these organisations are provoking others to react against all Kukis as they claim to represent the interest of all Kukis.

The various provocative issues include the claim that Haraothel area of National Sports University belongs to a Kuki village which was established only in 1992 after the Kuki-Naga conflict; claiming the sacred Mt Koubru as Kuki ancestral land which has been refuted by different communities; claiming of many hill areas of Manipur as ancestral land of Kukis while it is a known fact that many Kukis enjoyed the status of a refugee after independence and records exist to prove that and distortion of history of Manipur by claiming that area of Manipur was only 700 square miles when Manipur merged with India in 1949, it elaborated.

PAPP advised KSO GHQ to restrain itself from raising the bogus claim of Kuki Ancestral land in Manipur in the interest of peaceful coexistence rather than trying to defame a chief minister who is working day and night for the welfare of all.

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