CorCom heaps blames on Cong
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 13, 2012: The Coordination Committee (CorCom) of the armed groups� KCP, KYKL, PREPAK, PREPAK (Pro), RPF, UNLF and UPPK, has blamed the Congress party for devastating Manipur and acting as a destructive agent.

Calling Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Okram Ibobi as 'Fathers of Memorandum of Understandings', the CorCom in a press statement issued by its media coordinator H Poirei asserted that none of these MoUs were ever implemented as the political leaders have no principle and never bothered to keep their words.

People are witnesses to the number of killings perpetrated under the Congress rule and people are still living under an atmosphere of insecurity and deep rooted fear.

Like Chief Minister O Ibobi, his Council of Ministers are also playing with the lives of innocent people after taking the law into their own hands.

When the Advocate General was shot, no fair trial was conducted and when a Minister's son shot dead a student, the culprit was released on bail, the CorCom pointed out.

It is during the Congress rule that non-local people made continuous influx into Manipur in large hordes.

As a result, non-local people have crossed one-third of the total population of Manipur.

Ibobi, after setting up the Crisis Management Commission, has been working to protect and encourage settlement of non-local people in the State.

This would ultimately render the indigenous people a minority in their own land.

The influx of non-local people would only multiply once Imphal is connected with other cities of India by railway.

Asking if the Government of India or the State Government did anything substantial for the suffering people of Manipur when National Highways were blockaded for more than 100 days, the Committee remarked that the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had the audacity to keep mum on the economic blockade when he visited Manipur.

This implied that the Government of India was least concerned even as the people of Manipur were enduring extreme misery.

Accusing the Congress Government of doing nothing for human resource development in the State, the CorCom lamented that the educated youths of Manipur have been staring at a grim future.

Chief Minister O Ibobi seems to be unaware of the great number of impoverished students who have been pushed to the path of disappointment and frustration because they cannot get proper education as the Congress Government has been systematically closing down Government students, it alleged.

Had Manipur has its self-sustaining produces, the impacts of highway blockades would not have been so much acute.

Even as Manipur has been enduring protracted economic blockades time and again, it is astonishing that neither the Government of India nor the State Government feels the necessity to pursue any viable economic programme in the State in this age of globalization.

Underscoring the need to establish an economic base for essential self-reliance, the committee asserted that national economy of Manipur should be built up based on resilience of the people, geographical features of the land and natural resources.

However, the Indian National Congress and the Ibobi-led Government guided by their sinister design to keep Manipur forever dependent never thought of laying any viable economic foundation in the State, it alleged.

Stating that farmers constitute 70 per cent of the total population of Manipur, the committee asserted that agriculture sector can be developed as an industry and this would enable farmers to make Manipur self-reliant on food.

However, the Ibobi-led Government has been usurping agricultural lands which only testified that Manipur is an occupied territory.

Saying that it is the duty of the people to save Manipur before it is totally devastated by Congress party and Ibobi, the CorCom reiterated its appeal to stop canvassing for Congress party and also to cease keeping guard over Congress candidates in the name of Meira Paibi.

Active workers, polling agents as well as those involved in opening polling booths and distribution of cash for Congress candidates would be pulled up.

Observing that some people standing on the side of Congress party have been attempting to stir protest agitation, it appealed to all the people to desist from such agitation and their sponsors.

It also asked all the candidates not to make any alliance with the Congress party either before or after the elections.

The CorCom's prohibitions on Congress party are being imposed after studying the roles played by this political party in the forced merger of Manipur into India and its subsequent anti-people and anti-revolutionary viewpoints and activities.

The ban is not related with whether or not elections are conducted or who and who wins the election.

If any one defies the ban, he/she would be punished either before or after the elections, it cautioned.

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