SOREPA calls general strike on Oct 15
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, October 09 2022: In denunciation of the alleged forcible merger of Kangleipak/Manipur to India, the armed Socialist Revolutionary Party (SOREPA), Kangleipak has imposed general strike on October 15 effective from 5 am to 5 pm.

The general strike, however, will not cover movement relating to fire, electricity, water supply, medicine, religious ceremonies and media, SOREPA publicity secretary MC Yaiphabi informed in a statement, adding that the outfit will extend support to general strike, total shutdown, boycott call of other underground groups on the day.

Apart from informing people about the general strike, the SOREPA statement also honoured people and placed its views on the merger to public for discussion and deliberation.

According to SOREPA, a particular community could not join the race for develop ment until getting freedom while a nation will move to the path of development in the right perspective if both the individual and community have freedom.

However, it is questionable as to how 565 independent kingdoms of South East Asia (WESEA) and South Asia are surviving at present after the British left and it is the responsibility of the colonised WESEA people to understand how India was formed after forcible merger of the independent kingdoms.

Understanding and tackling neo-colonialism being spread after the end of World War II would be easy if we study how India's neo-colonialism based on Hindu feudalism spread to WESEA and South Asia.

India is a country ruled by Aryan (Mayang) and does not grant freedom to non-Aryan and non-Hindu people in the name of democracy.

The Aryan particularly, those settling in the Ganga valley collectively known as the Mayang people, are quite different from the Mongoloid people settling in the WESEA region.

There is intense conflict between Bengali people who dream of forming a greater Bengal/Sonar Bangal and Mongoloid group of people like Koch-Rajbangshi/Kamtapuri.

The Mayang people intentionally do not recognise the history of Gorkha and Koch/Kamtapuri people who lived independently till the British colonisation, SOREPA said, adding that Bengalisation process of Koch Rajbongsis of Kamtapur, Twipra of Tripura, Bodo of Tekhao as well as Garo, Khasi and Jaintia to form a greater Bengal is still continuing.

India's double standard nature of colonisation of Kashmir, Khalistan and WESEA including Kangleipak/Maniput on one side and portraying self as a peace-loving nation on the other side was exposed when PM Modi suggested to Russian President Putin that 'now is not the time for war' in the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war.

PM Modi's suggestion indeed was quite contradictory to the present situation in the country where the larger Aryan population almost engulf the colonised Mongoloid people with the imposition of AFSPA, open military rule in WESEA region and daily execution of people in Kashmir to uproot Kashmiri Muslims, the statement said.

Regarding the sovereignty movement in Kangleipak/Manipur, SOREPA asserted it has been continuing for restoration of sovereignty of Kangleipak/Manipur ever since India's forcible occupation on October 15, 1949.The sovereignty movement started under the guidance and leadership of Lamyanba Hijam Irabot in the early 1950s and is continuing unabated till date.

Just after Irabot formed Red Guard Council, leaders who believed in democratic government like Yangmaso Shaiza and Sagolsem Indramani demanded in 1952 that Manipur should exist as an independent nation outside India.

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