MPCC resents AMUCO besmirch, deadline
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, October 18 2023: Deeply saddened by very strong and awful word used by AMUCO on both AICC and MPCC regarding Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remark during an election rally in Mizoram, Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee president K Meghachandra has said that it was deplorable for AMUCO to use such words as if the organisation is the mouthpiece of BJP.

Talking to media persons at Congress Bhawan, here, on Wednesday, Meghachandra said that AMUCO had set deadline till October 20 for Rahul Gandhi to clarify on the remark he made about Manipur crisis during an election rally in Mizoram and told both AICC and MPCC to take responsibility for issuing the clarification before the deadline lapses.

Expressing remorse that an apex organisation like AMUCO issued deadline to Congress party, he asserted that was unfair to serve deadline to a political party not in power at present.

According to K Meghachandra, AMUCO picked just two sentences from what Rahul Gandhi said about Manipur crisis during an election campaign in Mizoram and the entire paragraph will not be meaningful by picking just two sentences.

What Rahul Gandhi said was that BJP is responsible for the crisis in Manipur and the nature of violence, he clarified, adding that the Congress leader only implied that BJP's activities, role, drama and game in the present situation in the state have seemingly divided Manipur into two parts and it was not in the capacity of either AICC or Rahul Gandhi to break Manipur into two states.

Reacting to AMUCO's condemnation of Rahul Gandhi's remark, the MPCC president said that it would have been better had AMUCO fully read the entire statement of Rahul Gandhi and setting deadline for clarification by a responsible civil society organisation like AMUCO was unreasonable at least to some extent.

He further said that AMUCO misinterpreted Rahul Gandhi's 'Idea of Manipur' emphasising safeguarding of territorial integrity of Manipur, no hatred among communities and no division based ethnicity.

While stating that an organisation like AMUCO cannot decide existence or non-existence of Congress party in Manipur, the MPCC president continued that political party is an institution and it is not fair for AMUCO to talk about existence or non-existence of a party.

He also asked AMUCO if the organisation served ultimatum to 10 Kuki MLAs including two BJP ministers, who demanded separate administration as part of their attempt to break apart Manipur, to clarify and why is AMUCO not uttering a word about keeping BJP alive or extinction in Manipur.

He also asked if AMUCO works in biased manner.

While asking as to who triggered the violence in Manipur and under which government's tenure such catastrophe had happened, the MPCC president said that the BJP accused Congress party of creating the violence and AMUCO too adopted similar tone.

However, people of the state are fully aware that separate administration demand and June 18 uprising of 2001 occurred when BJP is in power but no such major incidents occurred during the Congress government, Meghachandra reminded, while maintaining that Congress party had ruled the country for a long time since India got independent but no such major incident or violence occurred.

Reacting sharply to BJP's repeated accusations that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gifted Kabow Valley, the MPCC president said that the facts and documents about the transfer of Kabow Valley to Burma (now Myanmar) are intact at National Archives, New Delhi.

He said that hurling accusation without evidence or document is not valid in contemporary period and BJP should bring out the document to support their claim if Congress government gave away Kabow valley.

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