Manipur Govt opens an eye in Kuki & Naga areas, closes another eye in Meitei Areas
Manipur Govt opens an eye in Kuki & Naga areas, closes another eye in Meitei Areas . Dr Sandeep Pandey, general secretary of the Socialist Party of India, has been trying to restore peace in Manipur with the help of civil groups.
Dr Pandey is a recipient of the Magsaysay Award, which he returned to protest the Israeli military action in Gaza. The nation appreciates the heroic step of Dr. Sandeep[ Pandey supporting the use use of AFSPA in Hindu dominent Meitei area too.
It is understood that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to side with Meitei to reduce Christian's scheduled tribes population that is the very reason PM Nevedra Mod evaded vrom enquiing about the welfare of Hindu converted Christian minorities Kuki and Naga dominent ares of Nagaland.
The Constitution of India demands that the PM Narendra Modi treats all tghe commnities uniformly and restrain from supporting a particular society in furtherance of Hindu State idealogy guided by his remote controlled boss the RSS.
The first thing they must do is remove and impose President's rule in the not feasible eveent Narendra Modi should come forward voluteerly to resign and save burning Manipur in the laegest interest of Manipur..
It will be feasible only after replacing Chief Minister Biren Singh the free and fair mandate can be had. After one year of his dismissal we can have the Manipur assembly elections,. Is the general opinion of the subjects in Manipur a Christian dominent Kuki Tribal community in a Indian North Eastern State bordering Mayanmar.
Manipur Kukies are more stronger in ther will-power than the RSS and its actor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal will. The BJP's entire game was polarisation of the Meitei community in its favour. What they were not prepared for was the long term resistance from the Kuki community who are now better prepared as they are a tribal community with the tribal spirit in them to fight. The tribal spirit is never to surrender.
Nobody knows in which direction this violence will go now. The second thing which the government was not prepared for was the fact that the Kukis are holding onto certain areas of Manipur like Churachandpur where they are not allowing the Meiteis to enter. They have put out banners in their areas stating, 'You have separated us so now give us separate administration'.
CRPF or military was working at a central command that Chief Minister Biren Singh used to head. After May 4, the command has been taken away from Biren Singh and given to a security adviser, Kuldiep Singh, retired IPS, who has to take a call on this issue.
How can Kuldeep take such a call because such a call needs to be taken by a politician. Home Minister Amit Shah or Prime Minister Narendra Modi must tell him what to do.
Take the Armed Forces Special Protection Act, it was withdrawn from 19 police stations and it is only two days ago that they brought AFSPA back in six police stations. Now the Manipur government wants to withdraw AFSPA in Meitei dominated areas.
The government of Manipur wants AFSPA in Kuki and Naga areas but not in Meitei areas. This is a factual reasons leading to anarchy in local areas.
In Manipur they have mobilised the Meiteis who are mostly Hindus in their belief systems, against the Kukis who are Christians in their beliefs.
They were not prepared for the long term resistance of the Kuki community against the Meiteis, while the Kukis are demanding a separate administration.
Kuki are all Christians. Even if they are not Christians then they follow their tribal religion.
Meiteis are mostly Hindus and a part of them believe in reviving their traditional religion which is Sanamahism. Some Meiteis have converted to Islam and they are called Pangals. Largely, Meiteis consider themselves as Hindus.
Life in Manipur is going on except that the Meiteis cannot go to Kuki areas and the Kukis cannot go to Meitei areas.
Violence erupts in between, but that does not disrupt normal life. Two Meiteis were captured and held hostage by Kukis. These two hostages were later exchanged with 11 Kukis imprisoned in Imphal jail.
The present incidence of violence is unusual as curfew has been imposed in some districts and the Internet has been shut down. While this is being so, the civil society groups are scared. Take Babloo Loitongbam, when he tried to hold a peace meeting in Bengaluru, militant groups from Manipur threatened him and told him not to hold such meetings.
Other Manipuri civil society members were trying to take the peace initiative in Assam, but that too was not successful. Now they want some outsiders like to come and intervene.
The Kuki community is welcoming civil society, Meitei colleagues are not confident of the peace initiative. They feel if the peace outcome effort from their side goes wrong, they will become the target of Meitei militant organisations.
The Kukis are at the receiving end. The whole protest from their side started because of the high court judgment stating that Meiteis must be given schedule tribe status. This is what led to the start of violence as the Kukis took to protest. Now, they have to defend themselves for survival.
While the both the groups have their respective group's arms and ammunition to fight against each oter while Maities have support of the BJP and local regional Governments.
Meiteis have looted the police and got arms and ammunition. Kukis on the other hand have traditional arms. And there is some truth that arms are being supplied from Myanmar to Maities which is a neighbouring country.
But then even in Myanmar there is a different kind of resistance going on against the government. Their government has no control over certain areas of their country.
The first thing they must do is remove Chief Minister Biren Singh and impose President's rule. After one year of his dismissal Manipur can have free and fair assembly elections.
