KYKL chief scrutinises revolutionary movement-I
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 24 2022: The chairman of the proscribed Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) has categorically stated that a revolutionary movement that is on the correct path cannot be stopped.

A statement issued by the chairman on the eve of the outfit's 28th raising day (April 25) raised certain points for discussion with all concerned people about the present situation of the Kanglei people and the revolutionary movement.

On behalf of KYKL, the chairman offered revolutionary greetings to revolutionary organizations, people, civil society organizations, public leaders, intellectuals, and the media fraternity across the WESEA region.

He also expressed gratitude to the health-care providers who successfully fought the first and second waves of Covid-19 pandemic with incredible courage.

Noting that the revolutionary movement of Kangleipak has reached its nadir and people's faith in the cause has waned, the rebel leader remarked that those who are opposed to the liberation movement, on the other hand, are now engaged in anti-revolutionary activities in record numbers and with no fear.

"We are critically reliant on the handouts of Government of India.

As a result, many of us have come to believe that backing the alleged Indian colonialism in order to get monetary gain is the correct and sensible option.

We seem to have forgotten the importance of protecting our National identity while struggling for survival", read the Chairman's statement.

At the same time, revolutionary groups and revolutionaries in Kangleipak are falling apart.

The majority of revolutionary cadres have no qualms about quitting the struggle, it rued.

Anti-revolutionary views, such as failing to believe in the revolution, lack of trust in their own people, disillusionment regarding better future, giving in to the enemy as the correct act, prioritizing self-interest, and seeking the easiest way to meet the end have undoubtedly taken roots in most revolutionary cadres, it said.

"We have reached a point in history when those who continue to fight for revolution can be seen as insane.

Worse than individual cadres abandoning the party is the emergence of a trend in which revolutionary organizations as a whole have abandoned the struggle in the name of peace and development by engaging in peace talks with the enemy.

This is just a liquidationist act intended to annihilate the movement", the statement continued.

One of the primary reasons for the surrender to the enemy by those who want to quit the movement has to do with the wrong perspective from which they view the movement.

Their idea is that the movement is stepping backwards because it has not been able to garner mass support, and that it will never win, so the best to move forward is to abandon it, the chairman remarked.

Lack of critical thinking is behind this idea.

The crumbling revolutionary state that is witnessed today is not that which can never be reversed, he asserted.

"We cannot simply take people's aversion to revolutionary movement and hatred of the revolutionary people as something inborn.

Neither can the increasing power of the alleged colonial masters be taken as the major reason for people's non-participation in the movement", read the statement further.

Many factors contribute to the challenging social conditions in which the revolutionary movement moves back.

Some significant reasons for the Kanglei revolutionary movement's downward spiral are the leaders' inability to follow Che Guevara's revolutionary principle that revolutionaries should behave like ascetics; a slew of anti-revolutionary acts committed during the revolutionary movement to deal with challenges; incorrect mass leadership methods; non-revolutionary method in forging relationships between the masses and revolutionary cadres; and lack of ideological indoctrination among new members of the organization, the chairman elaborated.

While the set goals are correct, the practice has disempowered the people.

Rather than equipping the masses with revolutionary consciousness, Kanglei revolutionary organizations focused all their efforts in strengthening their respective organizations.

To make their goal of swaying people's consciousness a reality, the mass based organizations became fragmented, and many cultural norms were distorted, resulting in the breakdown of the collective Kanglei identity and consciousness, it asserted.

The rise of the vile culture, such as the transformation of Yaosang donation into a business and the thronging of people at the gates of Ministers/MLAs to beg for money, is equally the responsibility of Kanglei revolutionary organizations.

"Rather than aiming to make people more free and human, we have moulded their thoughts to become even more dependent beings", the KYKL chairman asserted.

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