Key YOM member arrested
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 03 2024:
A key member of Youths of Manipur (YOM) Laishram Bidyananda aka Kanglei-pakki Hulk has been arrested by police.
Notably, Bidyananda was a part of the YOM team who met Manipur legislators at their respective residences and held a meeting with the MLAs at New Delhi on the demand to end the conflict besieging the State since May 3, 2023 .
Speaking to the media at Manipur Press Club today, Laishram Manichandra, also a YOM member, said that Bidyananda was arrested after a voice clip with a mes- sage to start a strong social movement against the Government was circulated widely on social media.
The audio clip which was uploaded on a Facebook page "Kangleipakki Meira" has gone viral on social media.
The audio clip advocates Meeteis to start a strong uprising like that of June 18, 2001 to restore normalcy in Manipur.
It also claimed that the violence in Manipur was orchestrated by the Indian Government and the Indian Army has encircled the boundary of Manipur.
Manichandra said that the man behind the voice clip wasn't Bidyananda.
He also said that Bidya-nanda was picked up from his house at Kakwa Asem Leikai on January 31 to enquire about the voice clip and released on February 1 .
Bidyananda was re-arrested last night, Mani- chandra said.
Saying that the voice clip was edited to sound like Bidyananda, Manichandra said that YOM condemns the arrest of its member without having any evidence that the voice clip was uploaded by him.
He also said that the house of Bidyananda was attacked by miscreants in the past too while a bomb was placed at the residence of another member of YOM.
Saying that the police haven't arrested any of the miscreants who attacked YOM members nor enquir-ed the admin of Kangleipakki Meira to ascertain the person behind the voice clip, he urged the Government to release Bidyananda at the earliest.