Keithel body decries Govt inaction in Gwaltabi case
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, June 11 2025: While expressing remorse over inaction against security personnel who insisted on removing/covering of "Manipur" from a Manipur State Transport bus at Gwaltabi on May 20, Khwairamband Ima Keithel Joint Co-ordinating Committee for Peace has questioned whether the government of India would continue to remain silent till Manipur is completely wiped out from the map of India.

In a press meet held at Khwairamband Keithel here on Wednesday afternoon, Committee co-convenor L Memma said that the current scenario of Manipur is similar to how India viewed Manipur before the pre-merger agreement.

Despite being the largest democracy in the world, the principle of democracy has been rendered meaningless in Manipur.

It is now experiencing a hypocritical democracy, which is even worse than the military rule in neighbouring Myanmar, she remarked.

The co-convenor continued that the people of Manipur cannot accept the actions of forcing Arambai Tenggol (AT) members to surrender and then arresting their leader, and also the forced concealment of name of the state.

The people can see the bias and partial attitude of the administration in "threatening" the valley-based village volunteers to surrender their weapons, while not extending the same order to Kuki militants.

The consequence of ignoring the Kuki militants equipped with weapons more sophisticated than those at the hands of the Indian army, would never be good.

One cannot help but question whether the true agenda of the government is to see to the complete annihilation of the Meetei community from the face of the earth, she remarked.

Hinting at possible conspiracy, another co-convenor Y Ibeyaima stressed the need for investigating the exact causes of the floods occurring more frequently since last year.

She accused NHPC of greed, adding that it, through the Loktak project, deliberately stored the waters of Loktak Lake at 768.50 metres above mean sea level without permission from the centre so as to generate more electricity.

As mandated, when floods occur, the sluice gates of the Ithai Barrage should be opened to reduce flood risks, she pointed out while querying what action the Governor has taken against authorities of NHPC, LDA and Water Resources department, who are accountable for the floods crisis.

Further raising suspicions over the Governor's silence in-spite of devastation caused by frequent flooding in the state, she demanded compensation for all those affected by the deluge at the earliest, while cautioning of intense agitation in case of failing to do so.

She further cautioned that NHPC and Loktak Project could face a boycott if they continue to act wilfully.

Ibeyaima then said that the central and state governments' recent series of actions have deepened suspicion on agenda, efficiency and effectiveness of the President's Rule administration in the state.

As such, many from different sections of the society have been demanding for the incompetent and biased Governor to resign from his post and leave Manipur at the earliest, she claimed.

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