Imphal, March 29: Under a certain well thought out strategy, the Dalits are made to believe that it is their Karma that they should be born as low caste people and such is the manner in which this agenda has been hammered into their heads, that the Dalits have never questioned their sub-human existence.

The same process is being repeated in Manipur, said KYKL and added that while the Dalits are the old oppressed people, the people of Manipur are the Neo-Dalits.

Contradicting the claim of some who believe in the Orthodox Marxism that the migrant workers are not our enemy, KYKL said that Marx never experienced the cultural imposition by the majority on the minorities.

During the days of Marx (1818) there was no case of migrant labourers or farmers shifting to other places and later colonising them by sidelining the earlier inhabitants, argued KYKL.

If this condition had existed then, Marx would have surely spoken out against such a culture, it added.

America was not over run by the poor migrants but by rich and powerful people with the backing of the King and by eliminating the indigenous settlers, recalled KYKL.

In India too, it was the business class, the East India Company which paved the way for the British rule over India and not some poor migrants.

Marx analysed this and he was against such occupation.

Talking about the present, KYKL cited the case of the formation of Israel in 1948 when the Jews who constituted only 10 pc of the population of Palestine in 1919 accounted for 90 pc of the population in 1948.In Tripura, the indigenous people who accounted for 85 pc of the population when it was taken over by India in 1949, today accounts for only 29 pc with the majority being Bengalis.

The strength of the indigenous people of Tripura dwindled because of the increasing influx of migrant labourers into the State, said KYKL.

If Marx has been alive at this stage, he would have surely come out against such incursion by migrant workers into another place to ultimately displace the indigenous people, said the statement.

Even during his days, Marx had identified a class of people dubbed the lumpen proletariats and he had warned all to be aware of them as they did not belong to the proletariat class.

Despite the need to drive out all outsiders and migrant workers, killing them is not the right way of going about it, said KYKL, but added that the killings taken up in Assam may be justified as the migrant workers had started acquiring landed properties.

The best way to drive out all migrant workers would be not to provide them any employment opportunities, said KYKL and added that for this happen, the people have to change their character, take up their jobs etc.

The outfit also appealed to the people not to patronise the shops and business establishments run by the migrants.

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