KCP outfits give boycott I-Day calls
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, August 13 2025: The Politburo Standing Committee of the armed Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) appealed to the people of Kangleipak (Manipur) to boycott celebration of India's Independence Day on August 15 .

According to a KCP statement issued by information & public relations secretary M Pun-siba Meitei, people of Kangleipak are deprived of their inalienable right to self-determination ever since the Union of India occupied the once sovereign nation under the guise of the Manipur Merger Agreement, 1949 .

It said that the people of Kangleipak (Manipur) have been subjected to all forms of injustice and violence during the protracted occupation with the help of the so-called counter-insurgency forces.

However, the brutality of the Indian rule for a long time has failed to deter the people of Kangleipak from pursuing legitimate national goal, self-determination.

Under these circumstances it would be grossly inappropriate for the people of Kangleipak (Manipur) to celebrate the Independence Day of India, the statement said, reiterating its appeal to boycott the celebration on August 15 .

The armed Kangleipak Communist Party-Apunba (KCP-Apunba) has also imposed 12 hours total shutdown on August 15 from 5am as part of the boycott of India's Independence Day celebration in Kangleipak (Manipur) .

The total shutdown, however, will be relaxed for essential services, medical, electricity, water supply, fire service, press and religious ceremonies, informed a KCP statement to people.

According to the statement issued by publicity secretary Punsirol Meitei, Kangleipak (Manipur) existed as a self-sustaining sovereign nation having over 2,000 years of written history.

Kangleipak nation was developed by collective efforts and strength of many small indigenous communities like Mao, Tangkhul, Kabui, Anal, Chothe, Maring and Meitei-Pangal and history is witness to it.

After the end of British colonial rule, Kangleipak (Manipur) regained sovereign status and even had national assembly in 1948 with the then king Bodhchandra as constitutional head.

However, India annexed Kangleipak (Manipur) in 1949 and every aspect of Kangleipak including integrity, territory and identity began to erode.

India also sowed the seed of ethnic division particularly among the hill and valley dwellers and its resultant ethnic conflict put innumerable pain and suffering to indigenous people of the land at present, the statement said.

While asserting that all the suffering that the people of Kangleipak (Manipur) endured for a long time, ethnic conflict and communal discord are fallout of India's forcible occupation under the guise of merger agreement of 1949, the KCP said that there is no reason for people of Kangleipak (Manipur) to join India's Independence Day celebration and as such boycott of the celebration is justified.

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