PLA celebrates 41st Raising Day; RPF President Chaoren re-iterated the needs for revolutionary movement
Source: IT News

Imphal, September 25 2019: Army wing of the Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), People's Liberation Army (PLA) today observes its 41st Raising Day today.

The raising day of the armed rebel group waging war against the government of India for the restoration of the sovereignty of the erstwhile Kingdom was held at the General Head quarter of the PLA, Tactical Command, Strategic Command , 252 Mobile Battalion and other army unit, department, stations and also at the Central Bureau - SR 1, SR-2, SR-3 and SR-4 by hoisting the Party flag and also by honouring the martyred army who sacrificed for the cause of the freedom of the region.

A statement of the outfit signed by Roben Khuman, Secretary Publicity, Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) said that the 41st Raising day of the PLA was celebrated along with the people of the region at its Division 2,4,6,8,and 10 with festoons of the PLA which have Red Star.

PLA celebrates 41st Raising Day; RPF President Chaoren re-iterated the needs for revolutionary movement

The Raising day was also celebrated at different parts of the state, Roben Khuman added.

The statement further said that, President of the RPF sent greetings to the people of the state in connection with the 41st Raising Day of the PLA.

In his message I Choaren said that freedom, democracy and development are inter-connected pillars of a society.

A society will be peaceful, progressive and respected only when these pillars are healthy.

Such social conditions remain elusive in Manipur because of the meaningless freedom, pseudo-democratic government and cosmetic development .

"If we study the degenerated conditions of Manipuri society during the past 70 years since Manipur was annexed by India, it is highly questionable how long Manipuri society will survive.

We, the present generation, must explore an answer to this question otherwise our society will sink in a sea of foreign elements and nobody will believe Manipur once existed as a distinctive, glorious nation for several centuries", Chaoren said.

He said that this situation demands intensified revolutionary activities but the vast majority of the people have set their eyes only on individual prosperity or self-aggrandisement without sparing a single thought about what would be the future of Manipur.

"It appears that a large number of our people have been leashed by politicians who are more happy to live under the shadow and blessings of their political bosses sitting at Delhi.

But many patriots convinced themselves Manipur can never prosper under the colonial rule of India and built a revolutionary movement.

They soon started an armed freedom movement to free Manipur from the colonial yoke and establish selfrule.

It is this revolutionary movement which has been somehow keeping alive our people's spirit for freedom in the face of India's persistent attempts to destroy it completely and for good", he added and said that local politicians who have the audacity to assume the freedom of India as Manipur's freedom have been unleashing all kinds of repressive measures against freedom-loving people to suppress the revolutionary movement in connivance with Government of India.

Irengbam Chaoren also unveiled how the local politicians aremobilising people to work against the revolutionaries.

"Local politicians have been creating pseudo revolutionaries with a nefarious intention to impede the Paojel-190925/TL RPF Page 2 of 4 revolutionary movement and project the revolutionary groups in wrong light by blaming the genuine revolutionary groups for all the anti-social and criminal activities carried out by the pseudo revolutionaries" .

Choaren also points fingers to some people and intellectuals who work in media houses or take part in analysing news and events at electronic media houses saying that these people misinformed the public about the revolutionary movement thereby helping create confusions as a part of a larger conspiracy.

Regarding the Abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A from Jammu and Kashmir Chaoren said that What happened to Jammu & Kashmir last month happened to Manipur 70 years ago and the right for self-rule was forfeited.

He said it was on October 15 Indian colonial rule was imposed on Manipur for the first time.

Soon after the deceitful annexation, people started observing October 15 as Black Day and it also sowed seeds of a liberation movement which ultimately gave birth to today's armed revolutionary movement, Chaoren added.

On the peace talk with different armed group, Chaoren said that India will never succeed in working out a community based solution to the Naga people's demand for a greater Nagaland and Kuki people's aspiration to create an exclusive homeland.

Moreover, demanding community-based independence will certainly mean creating more enemies because their demand cannot be appropriated within the neighbouring states which have well defined boundaries.

These days, different communities live within the territories of neighbouring countries as bonafide citizens.

If these communities work to create a country of their own out of the country where they are living, there will be no place on earth which would be free from conflicts.

No country assumes such independence movement as worthy of extending support.

Even after knowing this fact well, India has been deceiving the Naga people as well as Kuki people to believe in falsehoods with an evil intention to use the armed groups as tools for creating animosity among different communities living together in Manipur.

India must put an end to such evil activities immediately.