Conspiracy at Work :: If Delhi knows, how couldn't Imphal know?
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: November 24, 2010 -

Amid the mystery over UNLF chairman RK Meghen's arrest or abduction understandably by a joint team of Indian intelligence agency–RAW and Bangladesh intelligence agency from Lalmati area in Dhaka 56 days ago, General Secretary of CPI AB Bardhan from New Delhi has conveyed an all important message to the Manipur State Council CPI that RK Meghen aka Sana Yaima has been handed over to India by the Bangladesh authority.

This message was reportedly given to AB Bardhan by the chairman of Bangladesh Communist Party, Manjur Hassan when Bardhan inquired about RK Meghen's arrest and whereabouts. Bardhan relayed this latest information to Langol Iboyaima, secretary of Manipur State Council, CPI on phone on Monday evening.

Now shouldn't we believe Shri AB Bardhan too? Could he also be trying to take the people of Manipur or the UPA government at the Centre for a ride?

From the way the Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, his Secretary, Home, GK Pillai, etc. have responded to the queries of the State Government and the people of Manipur, it would seem that the BBC, the Dhaka-based newspapers, the national media–print and electronic-were all publishing baseless and unfounded allegations, and now AB Bardhan's information would also be a lie to the Centre.

However, Shri Bardhan's information only reaffirms the Manipuri people's belief that RK Meghen was indeed arrested in Dhaka and has been taken to India by the Indian authority.

What would Shri Bardhan gain by simply cooking up a hogwash? By giving a false information, what would his party–CPI gain politically? Therefore the people of Manipur have no reason to disbelieve Shri Bardhan's information. The incident of arrest of RK Meghen in Dhaka that occurred on 29 September last has apparently been a public knowledge in that city.

All influential political leaders, irrespective of parties, of Bangladesh would have known about it. They all knew about the presence of various insurgent groups of the North Eastern Region of India in their country.

It's no secret that one of the major political parties of Bangladesh, as a policy, chose to look the other way when big insurgent organizations of NE India set up training camps on Bangladesh territory, which Delhi used to consider a covert support But now, that regime is out of power, and a Delhi-friendly regime is in power.

Shri AB Bardhan is understood to have written a letter to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh urging him to disclose the whereabouts of RK Meghen. The CPI is reported to be prepared to bring up the issue of the arrest of UNLF chairman and consequent disappearance, may be involuntarily or keeping him concealed for reasons known only to a few in the Union Government, in the parliament.

Naturally, the issue is drawing attention of the country and the world gradually. The Government of India would find it really hard to escape its responsibility and accountability to a convincing answer.

We've little reason to doubt that the Government of India, may be some directly concerned people, have precise information and ideas abut the whereabouts of RK Meghen and why he has to be concealed from the public's eyes and media glare. Thus when the Centre has perfect knowledge on the issue, there's no reason for the state government not to have information.

But following strict instructions from the Centre, may be the state government is playing blind.

Yet truth, like fire, can never be kept concealed with a cloth, for it will finally catch fire and what was concealed under the cloth will become exposed by itself.