Points listed for public to digest
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 08 2014: Listing five points for consideration, the PREPAK (Pro) has asked the people to be on the alert to defeat the agenda of the common enemy launched at the highest seat of learning, Manipur University, Ima Keithel, Secretariat Department, Highways which serve as the lifelines of the people and land.

Saluting the departed souls of the Red Army of PREPAK (Pro) and all those injured in the struggle, members of the outfit, party members of CorCom, revolutionary outfits of WESEA, the sympathisers, media houses, elders who have provided advice and suggestions and leaders of civil society organisations, chairman of the outfit, L Paliba in a statement listed a number of points for due deliberations.

Stating that the time has come to chart out an economic policy and showcase Kangleipak to the rest of the world, Paliba in the statement said that the primary objective is to make a sovereign Kangleipak which is based on political and economic independence.

This can be achieved through Constitutional protection of all the indigenous people irrespective of the size of population, political pluralism, development, equal justice and equal distribution to meet the challenges of globalisation.

Observing that Manipur has been under the rule of India for more than 64 years now, the statement said that in all these years an agenda has been at work to sow the seeds of suspicion and hatred amongst the indigenous peoples of the place.

At one point of time Kangleipak was self sufficient, but today this is no longer so with numerous outsiders crowding the place, said the statement.

Far from being self sufficient, today the people have been forced to depend on others for everything, said the outfit and added that the indigenous people have to depend on the outsiders to build houses, roads and bridges, food, educational institutions, places to treat the sick and ailing, Chamber of Commerce.

All these have been taken over by outsiders, said the outfit.

On Manipur University, the highest seat of learning in the place, the chairman said that today the varsity has been reduced to a place of vice by some teachers in cahoots with the policy framers of India.

Such is the reach of these elements that the highest seat of learning is today turned into a place where everything alien is deeply embedded including religious practices.

Using education as an ethnic bomb is unfortunate.

Asking all the erring teachers to mend their ways, Paliba recalled the time of a former VC who was in the varsity from December 1980 to 1984 who openly challenged the student community of the place.

Asking all the teachers to remember the numerous instances when students rose as one to demand the sacking of the then VC, Paliba said that even a Shumang Lila was produced to portray the said VC and his ways.

All the teachers who are obsessed with only the contract works and supply works should change their ways, said the outfit.

On Ima Keithel, the outfit said that the Government of India knows the huge role played by the women vendors on any issue of the place.

As such no efforts have been spared to dilute the contributions of the womenfolk by injecting a number of outsiders there.

Stating that there is nothing to learn from the outsiders, the outfit said that providing them employment and shelter would amount to betraying the future of the younger generations.

The time has also come to study the State Secretariat closely, said the outfit and added that it would be in the fitness of things to come to terms with the fact that none from the place are amongst the top ranking officers.

A study of the ethnic composition of the top rung officials of the department will lay bare the agenda of the Government.

The British policy is still being carried on by occupying the seats from where political and administrative strings can be pulled.

Going on the offensive against the alien rule, the outfit asserted that though Irom Sharmila Chanu has been on a fast for the past 13 years, demanding the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, nothing has been done.

The outfit questioned whether the issue raised by Sharmila has been discussed or debated in Parliament.

On the other hand, a Clean India campaign has been launched in honour of Mahatma Gandhi, but nothing has been done for a peaceful protestor, it added.

Going on the offensive against the political class, the outfit stated that just to win elections and become an MLA or a Minister for a period of five years, vote banks are being cultivated in the hills, hill sides and anywhere by letting outsiders settle there.

On the other hand, those with an agenda to break the territorial integrity of the land have been buying all the wasteland and anywhere at huge amount.

The huge amount of money belongs to the people, said the outfit and added that the money was looted from the public on the highways, by abducting for ransom and by hijacking vehicles.

Anyone wedded to the idea of a united Kangleipak would not indulge in such activities.

Time for everyone to know the hidden agenda at play here.

The present generation should learn that it was due to the selfish motives of the rich land owners and kings and chiefs that the people were deeply divided.

The British carried this on with their divide and rule policy and till today there are so called leaders who are out to take advantage by dividing the people.

India might have been successful in their Mar Mission and with the nuclear bomb, but till today it has not been successful in building the highways.

No wonder then that the highways resemble nothing better than public ponds and thick jungles.

The outfit further questioned where the highway protection force is, where the fund for the sewage project has been kept, who spent the large amount of fund meant for the Japanese Sericulture Project, Loktak Development.

The outfit also took digs at the police commandos who have been flexing their muscles.

If at all they are brave then they should be able to stop the daily killings of women, drug racketeers etc.

Instead of concentrating their minds on battling these social evils, most of the personnel are more interested in acting tough and using foul languages against the family members of underground cadres.

Most of the police commandos are have mastered the art of fake encounters and it is no wonder that gallantry awards are being given for scalping others instead of fighting social crimes.

At present fake encounters and custodial killings have gone down not because the Government has had a change of heart but from the tongue lashing it has received from certain quarters.

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