Imphal, May 19: The alleged conspiracy of the Government of India and the State Government headed by Okram Ibobi to fuel a civil war amongst the indigenous people of Manipur was deliberated at length during the first summer conference (Olangtha Mipham) of the KCP (MC) held at its second base camp from May 9 to May 18 .

The 10 day long conference also discussed the party's foreign policy and improvisation of its weaponry, judicious use of the party's fund collected from people, collective perspective encompassing all the ethnic groups of the Manipur, economics of the land and non-commemoration of its departed leader Pajihan Mutum Ibopishak.

A statement issued by KCP (MC)'s military affairs secretary Lanheiba Meitei asserted that it's time for all the people to analyse the alleged conspiracy of the State to degrade the noble revolutionary movement to a civil war and intra-community conflict.

Taking serious note of Chief Minister O Ibobi's initiative to issue guns to the people of Heirok in the name of self-defence, the outfit reminded of the tragedy suffered by people of Tripura after they felled into the diabolic scheme of New Delhi and its puppet State Government.

In the name of self-defence but with the ulterior motive to subdue the liberation movement of the Tripura National Volunteers (TNV), the then Chief Minister of Tripura Nripan Chakraborty issued guns to the people.

As a result of the policy, clashes and internecine killings among the people erupted from Mandwai PS, Jiralia (now called Mandwai PS, district Tripura West) in the tragic night of June 7, 1980, claiming a large number of lives.

Even today, skeleton remains of those killed in the clashes were discovered regularly from the compound of St Montfort School under Champak Nagar police station.

Consequent upon the clashes, people started opposing TNV president Bijoykumar Hrangkhawl and its movement lost all public support.

Unable to sustain the movement without public support, Bijoykumar ultimately surrendered to the Tripura Government in 1988, recalled Lanheiba.

People of Heirok and Chajing should know better whether they should go with the policy of the Government of India or not which is allegedly aimed at creating animosity among the people and ultimately to bring a civil war.

The best armies in the world are not those equipped with the most lethal weapons but those with high discipline and firm conviction, it said.

The actual beneficiary of the State Government's initiative to create a group of armed civilians against the liberation movement is not CM Ibobi but the Government of India, it asserted.

Though the KCP (MC) has not yet completed a year, at least 100 armed cadres will be raised before the end of this current year, it declared.

While appealing to the people to support the revolutionary movement, it reminded all the insurgent groups that "People are water and revolutionaries are fishes".

Cautioning the people against falling into the conspiracy of the alien rulers, the outfit declared that it is standing firm to protect the freedom and rights of the people.

Further recalling that its departed leader Pajihan Mutum Ibopishak was a devout revolutionary until his dying moments who made pioneering efforts for unification of all insurgent groups, it lamented pushing the departed leader into oblivion.

It's sheer ingratitude not to pay any respect to the departed revolutionary on his death anniversary.

The same matter was also discussed during the party's first summer conference, added Lanheiba.

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