Imphal, July 21, 2010: Kidnapping of people demanding contract works, quotas in job appointments and money is not the work to be done by true revolutionaries.

They are gangs, not revolutionary, Health and Family Welfare Minister, Ph Parijat, anguished over the kidnapping of his worker's son, said today.

The minister, speaking at one of the sit-in protest staged in protest against the kidnapping of son of his worker Yumnam Manaobi at Yourbung in Imphal east, further said that if the group responsible for kidnapping is to be engaged in taking government contract works, quotas in government job appointments, they can do it not as an underground group.

Come out and do it openly, many people in the society are doing contract works.

In taking contract works, it is not necessary to be underground.

Kidnapping people for ransom and for taking contract works is not the act of revolutionaries but for the gang, looters and terrorists, he lamented.

With no heed to people's hue and cry, undergrounds continued kidnapping of people for ransom and threaten with bombs invaded in the state of Manipur.

While protests against kidnapping were carrying out at different places, a failed bomb attack was performed at the residence of a doctor in Imphal today.

Widespread protests were stages against the kidnappings and attempts to kidnap reported in the last two days.

Residents of Lamlai area in Imphal and students of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) carried out in-protest against kidnappings.

Residents of Lamlai area staged sit-in protest at four places registering protest against the kidnapping of Yumnam Manaobi (19-year old), a student of Birmangol College, Swambung and urging unconditional release of the son of Y Megha, a close worker of the state health minister, Ph Parijat.

The protests were staged at Birmangol College where the kidnapped Manaobi studies, at Yourbung, Sekta and Nongada.

They charged the underground group of kidnapping the students on the demand of Rs 10 crore with contract works of infrastructure development of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Science (JNIMS) in favour of the group and reservation 10 sits as their quota in the appointment of doctors in the hospital, Porompat.

They said KCP (MTF)-City Meetei is behind the kidnapping of the son when they could not find his father and unable to press the minister for fulfilling their demands."They (KCP group) are making the youth as escape goat when they could do nothing against the minister," students of Birmangol College staging sit-in protest decrying abduction of their colleague cried.

Students and staffs of RIMS, suspending classes and duty of the day" also staged a sit-in protest inside the campus of the institute register strong resentment for the kidnapping bid of one of their colleagues by militants said to belong to United Kuki Revolutionary Army (UKRA) yesterday.

The student doing post graduate in community medicine at the institute, Punal Chakarborty, a resident of Tripura state was kidnapped on the way to his hostel in Churachandpur district yesterday.

He was rescued by police, who launched search operation on receive the news of kidnapping the student yesterday late evening.

The kidnapping bid has disturbed minds of the students as it could not be rule out that the militants repeating the crime against, said the students taking part in the protest in front of the OPD of the Hospital.

The protest started around 10 am and continued till late evening disturbed the normal service in the hospital.

While the students are staging protest against kidnapping, militants threatened a doctor of the same hospital, RIMS, today by hurling a hand grenade which failed to explode while the protest was in progress.

The hand grenade hurled at the house of ENT doctor Modhumangol at Chingamakhong under Imphal police station in the afternoon, at about 1 pm failed to explode, police said.

The bomb was later collected by a team of police commandos of Imphal west district police, a police report said.

Police suspected the failed attack related with extortion demand from the doctor, who was not at home at the time of hurling the bomb.

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