Blockades incompatible with Biblical teachings: PPAM

IMPHAL, Dec 24
Extending warm Christmas greetings and wishing everyone a peaceful, safe and joyous season, the People’s Progressive Alliance Manipur (PPAM) has categorically stated that blockades are fundamentally incompatible with the teachings of the Bible.
The continuing conflict in Manipur has revealed many political, social, and ethnic fractures, but one issue demands urgent moral scrutiny: the repeated blockade and restricted movements along the highways, the PPAM said in a statement.
 In Manipur, highways are not optional routes of convenience; they are the lifelines of the State. Blocking them is not merely a tactic of protest, it is an act that suffocates society, it said.
The PPAM said that when highways are blocked to force political concessions, the Government is pressured indirectly, but the people are punished directly.
This is hostage politics, not moral resistance, it said.
Highways must remain open at all times. Humanitarian corridors cannot be bargaining chips. Political pressure must be exercised through dialogue, legal means, and nonviolent witness, not by starving society. Churches should act as moral mediators, not ethnic amplifiers, it said.
Reopening roads will not solve all political disputes, but it will affirm a foundational truth: that no demand, however urgent, justifies choking life itself.
To remove the blockade and let one’s neighbour move freely is not weakness; it is fidelity to the Gospel and a first step toward restoring Manipur’s wounded moral order, the PPAM said.
The PPAM has also urged all anti-social elements to desist immediately from looting, forced extortion, harassment and physical abuse inflicted on highway drivers and other criminal acts along Manipur’s National Highways from Christmas Day (25 December 2025) through 31 January 2026, so that families, travellers and communities may celebrate in safety and merriment.