ASUK imposes 12 hours general strike
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 13 2022: The Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak (ASUK) has called a 12 hour general strike all over Kangleipak from 6 am of October 15 to 6 pm of the same day.

The general strike would be relaxed for medical service, media and religious activities, informed a press release issued by ASUK publicity committee convenor S Mangal.

There was a popular elected Government in Manipur under the Manipur State Constitution Act 1947 when the king of Manipur was forced to sign the Merger Agreement on September 21, 1949, alleged the alliance.

On October 15 the same year, Manipur was merged into the Indian Union as a Part-C State.

Subsequently, revolutionary groups of the land have been observing October 15 as 'National Black Day' every year, it said.

The revolutionary groups and the people have been condemning the alleged annexation of Manipur by India by observing general strike on October 15 and the same should be sustained until Manipur achieves the right to self determination, it asserted.

Using military power, the Indian ruling elites have been ruling over the people of Manipur.

At the same time, the Government of India has been scheming to make the people of Manipur see themselves as Indians and accept the pan Indian identity, it alleged.

The people of Manipur must stay away from such conspiracies of India and challenge the alien rule.

The National contradiction between India and Manipur should be sharpened to the optimum level, it said.

Manipur was never a part of India in its pre-history or proto-history.

Neither was Manipur a native State of India historically, politically or geographically.

Manipur existed as an independent Nation in South East Asia for a very long period.

Even if contemporary India sees itself as the political continuity and heritage of the Asoka Empire and the Mughal Empire, Manipur was never within the ambit of India unlike Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), it asserted.

The sheer poverty and oppression suffered by the people of Manipur and their inability to resolve myriad issues all have their roots in the Merger Agreement of 1949 .

In order to educate the younger generations about the real meaning of the Merger Agreement and raise the liberation movement to a higher trajectory, the Merger Agreement should be denounced boldly, the ASUK added.

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