ASUK calls total shutdown on Aug 15
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, August 11 2024: Boycotting celebration of India's Independence Day, the armed Alliance for Socialist Unity, Kangleipak (ASUK) has announced imposition of total shutdown on August 15 from 6 am till 6 pm.

The shutdown, however, will be relaxed for emergency and essential services, medical, fire, religious ceremonies and activities related with education, ASUK declared in a statement.

According to the statement issued by ASUK publicity committee convener S Mangal, August 15 is India's Independence Day for which preparations for grand celebrations on the day are being made across India including in Manipur by government and private institutions.

August 15 might be a joyous and the biggest day for mainland Indians as it was on this day in 1947 that they got freedom but the day remains as opening of death-trap and entry into the land of death for the people of WESEA including Manipur, ASUK stated.

After remaining as a British colony for hundreds of years, India became an independent nation on August 15, 1947 .

immediately after its birth as a new independent nation of the globe, India develop a monstrous character to build an Indian Empire, which Indian leaders have been dreaming since 1930s.When the British came, India was not a country but a mere geographical expression.

India's freedom movement had two-prong objectives, to achieve freedom and to form a new Indian empire.

To achieve this objective, the Congress party in its Haripura session in 1938 declared that it all the princely states in Indian sub-continent as inseparable part of India following which Indian leaders intensified the politics of building an Indian empire after 1947 and used various tactics and force including treachery, corruption, kidnapping and blackmail to bring all princely states under Indian sub-continent.

Accordingly, Travancore, Kamatapur/Coochbihar, Tripura, Manipur, Junagarh, Hyderabad, Kashmir, Goa, Sikkim, etc., were forcibly merged into the Indian Union.

It has also been declared already by the RSS/BJP leaders that their objective is to develop a Mega Indian Empire called 'Akhanda Bharat' by merging the present Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tibet (presently under China) to India.

However, the Indian imperialism dream will be one of the factors for triggering another world war, ASUK cautioned.

While asserting that activities in pursuance of Indian imperialism are almost similar to what were written in colonial theory, the statement said the imperial centre of Indian imperialism is 'Hindi heartland' while the imperial periphery comprisingWESEA (North-East), Kashmir, Punjab and South India.

India's policy towards imperial periphery differs hugely based on time and place while colonial administration in South India is very low but very high in WESEA.

region.

What the Hindi Heartland has been doing to the WESEA region is almost like 'From occupation of land to the occupation of Being', the ASUK statement said adding that as occupation of land has been completed the stage now is 'occupation of Being'.

According to the ASUK statement, one of the main thoughts the colonial owners consider right is that they are different from people living in colonised region and they consider this difference as un-changeable and even used as tool to suppress colonised people.

In today's India, leaders of Hindi heartland have and give the people of the North East including Manipur the same treatment as that of the colonial rulers in the 19th century with one vivid example being Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement vis-a-vis the ongoing ethnic violence that Manipur has long history of communal clashes and should not speak freely without knowing this, pointed out the ASUK statement while questioning the hidden meaning such a remark by the PM.

ASUK further said that leaders of Hindi heartland still consider the people of WESEA region as colonised people and lesser breed as could be comprehended from India bombing Aizawl and wiping out around 10 major villages in 1966 using fighter jets when the Mizos waged war.

It was unprecedented that such extreme actions of bombing own citizens were carried out using fighter jets, the ASUK said.

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