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

Imphal, October 11 2021: The newly floated 'Socialist Revolutionary Party' (SOREPA), Kangleipak has called a general strike on October 15 from 5am till 5pm against the forcible merger of Manipur (Kangleipak) into India on October 15, 1949 .

Announcing the general strike, a SOREPA statement issued by its publicity in charge MC Yaiphabi said that the general strike will not cover movement related with health workers fighting COVID-19 pandemic in the forefront, medical, fire and electricity.

People of Manipur and rest of the world are fully aware that the then king Bodhchandra was forced to sign on the merger document at Shillong on September 21, 1949 .

The merger came into effect from October 15 the same year.

For more than 72 years, people of Manipur/Kangleipak remain under India as slave without getting legitimate rights.

The strategy of India's suppressive regime in Manipur is to completely uproot the indigenous people to ultimately set up a society for outsiders (Mayang people) and this is being well understood by the people of the land now, SOREPA said, adding that armed movement for restoration of sovereign status of Manipur is the right answer to India's annexation.

The SOREPA statement further said that people of the world fully acknowledged that Manipur remained as one of the independent nations in Western South East Asia (WESEA) and then remained as a British protectorate for a long time.

After the British handed freedom on August 14, 1947, Manipur regained its sovereign status and had self-administered government for nearly two years.

However, taking advantage of lack of armed forces, the newly independent Manipur was occupied by India in a very undemocratic manner with the main objective of developing a large 'Mayang' land in South East Asia.

Since then, people of Manipur have been suffering under India's suppressive regime, SOREPA said while stressing the need for having a thorough discussion on why present generation of Manipur are suffering under India's torture.

The outfit further said that revolutionary movement could not yield fruit if the root causes of national contradiction are not identified and that a critical study in this regard is very much necessary.

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