Throw love, bolt violence, guns wouldn't end crisis: Dr Pfoze
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kangpokpi, December 29 2023:
"Throw love as much as you can and bolt violence as far as possible because the present Manipur crisis cannot be solved through guns and bullets, but only through love and peaceful coexistence," said Outer Manipur MP Dr Lorho S Pfoze during the Daili village Platinum Jubilee celebration held in the district on Friday.
Highlighting that the state has gone through a period of an unprecedented violence, with the evil of violence so active that it has brought much disruption among the people, Dr Lorho lamented that the violence has brought almost everything to a standstill.
With no economic growth and commercial activities going down, nobody can move around as they wish, and education and health systems are coming to a difficult stage.
"It is at such a time as this that we must throw love as much as we can up to the extent that love could engulf the wide-scale hatred among the people and we must know how to live peaceably with our neighbours," asserted the MP.
Dr Lbrho also said that this is the time when we need to have peaceful coexistence which can happen only when we overlook the fault of others, and only when we can forgive the wrong people have done to us.
"Peace in Manipur has to be with the love you share with others, and it has to be with learning to live peacefully with others, not with guns and bullets," the parliamentarian stated, adding "there has to be peace, forgiveness and reconciliation among our people".
He also maintained that it is also when we learn to love, it will be able to win the hearts of those who hate us, and love will be able to control the violence that people intend to bring upon us and live peacefully with others.
While encouraging people to become ambassadors of love and peace, Dr Lorho motivated the people of Kangpokpi district as a whole and Daili village, in particular, to continue to show the trend of peace and the trend of learning to live peacefully with others.
Earlier, the MP, who attended as chief guest, unveiled the monolith erected to commemorate Daili village's platinum jubilee in the presence of Mao AC MLA Losii Dikho, and Sadar Hills ex-councillor H Khangba as the guest of honour.
Traditional trumpet blowing and invocation of the traditional blessing marked the first session of the event, followed by a mass traditional procession along the highway; while traditional fire making, lighting of Jubilee flames by the MP, and hoisting of the Jubilee flag and releasing of a souvenir by Senapati ex-councillor Thisho Kriina, followed by blessing presentation of Daili village women married in other places, and a sumptuous feast marked the second session.
Kangpokpi SP Manoj Prabhakar, and his subordinate officers, SDC- Kangpokpi Papao Touthang, ex-MDCs from Sadar Hills and Senapati, neighbouring village chiefs, various CSOs leaders, prominent Naga leaders, and frontal organisations leaders, youth clubs, etc., also took part in the event.
Established in 1948, Daili village is a conglomerate of Mao villages amalgamated into one, which proudly exudes the vibrant culture and tradition of the Mao Naga.
Pfose Pfona Phepriio Dili, Abo Pfona Athisii Kaikho, and Pfose Pfona Chape Adahe (Hodzii) were the first settlers of Daili village while Pfose Pfona Phepriio Dili became the chief of Daili village after its recognition in 1951 .
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