Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 24 2010:
The chairman of the proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), Toijam Achouba has once again said that all the revolutionary organisations struggling for a free Manipur need to be united.
In a statement released today, Toijam Achouba said that it is time the revolutionary organisations went ahead in a fast pace toward unity.
The Chairman said, when he first began to feel really concerned about losing the identity of the indigenous people, dance, music, Khubak Eshei, Gourleela, Shanshenba, Jagoi Ras of Radha-Krishna, offering Tarpon, Shorat (Shraddha), Ashti Chandan, religious naming ceremony performed Bamon (Brahman), etc.
were all done in Mayang Lon (language other than Manipuri).
Not only these, even in Lai Haraoba, the cultural tradition that has been followed since time immemorial, other language from outside used to be incorporated.
All venues of Lai Haraoba used to be a place for people who always obeyed what the Mayangs told them to, and turned such place into a place of obsenities, Toijam Achouba said.
In fact, members of the same family, father and his own children, brothers and sisters could not sit together to watch the procedure of Lai Haraoba, the statement pointed out.
To be continued .