PREPAK(Pro) holds stand on love for motherland
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 09 2025: The proscribed PREPAK(Pro) has asserted that fighting the enemies collectively in order to protect the motherland should be the dharma of both revolutionary organisations and the masses.

A statement issued by PREPAK(Pro) Chairman Longjam Paliba M on the occasion of the 49th raising day of its Red Army offered revolutionary salute to all the people who had laid down their lives in the course of the sustained struggle to save the motherland.

The outfit has also expressed solidarity with the wounded, suffering, disappeared people and also the displaced families.

Communal conflicts, high unemployment, indifference to the issue of climate change, declining birth-rate and loss of work culture are some unmistakable indications of the downfall of a Nation, Longjam Paliba said.

When a Nation is on the path of downfall, its people, instead of correcting wrong actions, just say "Let it rot" or "Let it be, who cares" .

Thus the people develop an apathetic culture, he said.

Most of the high ranking officials do not work with a sense of responsibility.

Instead, they pretend to work with an attitude of "quiet quitting", read the Chairman's statement.

Even though non-local officers occupy higher ranks than the local officers, the non-local officers would not be able to indulge in their whims and fancy if the indigenous officers stand firm and united, it said.

It is a matter of grave concern that most of the elites are groomed to amass wealth and power rather than to become "social intellectual elites".

As such, they are little interested in reforming the fast degenerating society, read the statement.

Dharma is not necessarily restricted to one's religion or faith.

Dharma encompasses one's attitude and conviction to develop his/her society together with his/her own family.

"Saving our homeland from the chaotic situation and fighting those who are engaging in an open aggression to wipe us out is also a dharma of every Meitei or Manipuri", Paliba said.

"This dharma is indispensable and we will come to know who our friends are and who our enemies when we view things from the perspective of this dharma", he said.

It is a reality that Manipur/Kangleipak is now dependent on others in every aspect of life.

Teachers, doctors, farmers, workers and elites need to know this reality and work accordingly, the statement read.

But Manipur is abound with educated and power hungry people who want to be on top of the social class pyramid.

Well known macro-historian Peter Turchin said that "elite overproduction" and struggle for power among the elites is one major factor which will push the society or Nation to anarchy, according to the PREPAK(Pro) Chairman's statement.

Most of the power-hungry intellectuals know how to infuriate people but they never guide the people to the path of easing the people's anger.

Rhetoric is not enough.

What is more important is working together with the masses for a legitimate people's movement, it said.

The people of Kangleipak/Manipur will continue to endure political nightmare and exist as 'living death' as long as Meitei politicians, without giving any thought, obey the 'pernicious commandment' given by corrupted Indian leaders to destroy Kangleipak/Manipur, it continued.

While ecocides and ethnic-based terrorists have been given the status of a 'protected community', the valley communities are being kept under siege.

But the Government of India is unable to punish those people who have been keeping the valley under siege, Paliba said before asking how far the Government of India can be trusted.

It said that some media and organisations of mainland India have been circulating false narratives and propaganda against the Meitei community, thereby endangering Meitei people outside the State.

Because of being ruled by a "Kakistocratic Government" for a long time which does not share any love for their homeland, Meiteis are not safe to live as Indians and they face existential threat in standing against India, it said.

At this crucial stage, the insurgents and common people must courageously stand together to resist and fight the enemies as it is "our collective dharma", Paliba added.

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