Communal polarisation worries KSO
Source: Chronicle News Service

Kpi, May 30 2022: Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO), general headquarters has said that communal polarisation is at its height in Manipur at present and this does not bode well for future peace and development in the state.

According to KSO vice president Haokholun Haokip, there has been an unbridled surge of anger and hatred towards people of a community by another community while communally charged statements and hate speeches have become order of the day.

Such outbursts that provoke communal feeling have the potential to destroy peace and harmony in the state and it is more disturbing that BJYM Manipur Pradesh is taking the centre stage.

While pointing out that BJYM Manipur is not an individual but is the youth wing of the BJP, KSO said that peace, harmony, development and integrity in the state would be in danger if youth wing of the ruling party in the state started engaging in such a communal attack.

However, the state BJP and the government are maintaining a stoic silence as if they are patronising the divisive and communal antics of its youth wing, he added.

The vice president also said that calling a section of the society as foreigners/refugees is just a conspiracy to grab their land and properties.

The N Biren-led government promises peace and development but policies in the last two months of the current dispensation are directed towards marginalising a section of the society.

He also said that government is too critical and intolerant of personal opinions and comments of the common man on social media when it has a bigger responsibility of running the state.

If Dr Mark Haokip can be arrested then Barish of BJVM Manipur, Sapam Jadumani, and RK Rajendro of Haomee Federation should also be arrested, the KSO leader asserted.

Until these people are arrested then justice is not served at all, he added.

Meanwhile, KSO, Churachandpur said it "is perturbed by the insidious and now imperious and flagrant activities of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Manipur Pradesh which constantly mired different communities in the state of Manipur.

The Youth Wing has been constantly engaged in the hate-speeches which are vexatious and harming the peaceful co-existence between communities living in the state since time immemorial" .

The hate speeches posted in social media are not exogenous but endogenous to the state's indigenous communities and issues, and framed by local chauvinists working under the guise of a national party.

The irreverent and vitriolic hate-posts are unending and have put throes to the ingenuous Kukis, the KSO Churachandpur said.

"The targeting of a particular community by the youth wing, which it should be working for the interests of all communities in the state, has seriously maligned the image of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) .

They are punishable offence under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and The Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989," it pointed out.

The organisation went on, "The megalomaniac malfeasance has made the leaders of the Yuva Morcha a persona non grata to the Kukis, despite the youth wing being of national character and the party being largely supported in the recent elections.

The activities and social media posts of BJYM Manipur Pradesh is a faux pas to a national party and an embarrassment.

It exemplifies the naivety and crass of some leaders in Manipur who are unworthy of holding such positions" .

"When the state is slowly and steadily moving towards peaceful resolution of all political and social problems, which the communities in the state have onerously worked for, it has been circumscribed by these imperious and egregious misdeeds of the Yuva Morcha leaders in Manipur.

The enmity created by the BJYM Manipur Pradesh will be fleeting if not timely action is taken by the authorities concerned in the state," it added.

KSO Churachandpur then urged both the central and state governments "to kindly do the needful as per the law of the land.

The BJP, as a national party ruling at both the centre and the state of Manipur, should acquiesce the malefaction and circumvent without vacillating or mouthing in public" .

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