No point in observing Statehood Day : PREPAK
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jan 20 : The proscribed PREPAK has asserted that Kangleipak was never a part of India even though it existed as a protectorate State of the British empire for some years.
After king Bodhchandra was allegedly forced to sign the Manipur Merger Agreement on September 21, 1949 under duress, India annexed Kangleipak/Manipur and Kangleipak which existed as a sovereign kingdom for thousands of years was reduced to a very lowly Part C State.
After being reduced to the status of a Part C State for many years, India occupied Kangleipak in the form of a Union Territory before Kangleipak was granted Statehood on January 21, 1972.
Thus Kangleipak became a State of India on January 21, 1972. Commemoration of the Statehood day on January 21 is a big deception to the people of Kangleipak, said a statement issued by the outfit’s Charge de’ Affairs, Publicity and Propaganda, Leibaak-Ngaakpa Luwang.
It said that the people of Kangleipak ought not participate in the Statehood day celebration.
It alleged that India inherited the British colonial legacy and annexed many independent small Nations forcibly.
After forcibly annexing Kangleipak which existed as an Asiatic sovereign State, the Government of India has been conspiring constantly to eradicate the cultural, social and political rights of the people of Kangleipak, it alleged.
The Government of India has been employing different policies to completely erase the fact that Kangleipak once existed as an Asiatic sovereign kingdom, it said.
At the same time, many Indian historians and some paid local historians have been trying to project an image that Kangleipak has been an integral part of India since the ancient period, it said.
After all its economic foundations were destroyed, Kangleipak has been flooded with all types of commodities imported from India. The Government of India has been working consistently to create a notion that Kangleipak cannot survive without aid from India, the outfit remarked.
Although elections held amid heavy security deployment with huge financial investment give an impression that Kangleipak is a free State, selection of leaders of legislators of National parties and constitution of Council of Ministers are all controlled by Delhi, it said.
All the top and key administrative posts of Kangleipak are held by outsiders or their loyalists. To keep the people of Kangleipak under permanent suppression is a constant policy of the Government of India, it alleged.
It said that the Government of India has been consistently following a policy of forced assimilation in Kangleipak.
In spite of all these policies of subjugation and assimilation, the people of Kangleipak have been standing firm against alien occupation, and PREPAK will carry on the liberation movement along with the masses, it asserted.
Overwhelmed by India’s deceitful policies, the political freedom of Kangleipak as well as its self-reliant economy have fallen apart.
The Indian education policy, which is a continuation of British colonial rule’s education policy, is producing youths who are seen as burdens, not assets; who are job seekers, not job creators, it said.
Drugged by India’s cloak of democracy, and unable to see the real democracy and electoral politics, the people of Kangleipak have been indulging in all kinds of violence during the elections. Even the priceless voting rights are being sold off in exchange for a meal, it said.
Noting that elections have been held several times after India allegedly annexed Kangleipak, the outfit asked whether these elections have brought any positive change.
Saying that the commemorative function of the 54th Statehood Day being organised by the State Government is anathema to the people, it appealed to all the people of Kangleipak to stay away from the Statehood Day function.
IMPHAL, Jan 20 : The proscribed PREPAK has asserted that Kangleipak was never a part of India even though it existed as a protectorate State of the British empire for some years.
After king Bodhchandra was allegedly forced to sign the Manipur Merger Agreement on September 21, 1949 under duress, India annexed Kangleipak/Manipur and Kangleipak which existed as a sovereign kingdom for thousands of years was reduced to a very lowly Part C State.
After being reduced to the status of a Part C State for many years, India occupied Kangleipak in the form of a Union Territory before Kangleipak was granted Statehood on January 21, 1972.
Thus Kangleipak became a State of India on January 21, 1972. Commemoration of the Statehood day on January 21 is a big deception to the people of Kangleipak, said a statement issued by the outfit’s Charge de’ Affairs, Publicity and Propaganda, Leibaak-Ngaakpa Luwang.
It said that the people of Kangleipak ought not participate in the Statehood day celebration.
It alleged that India inherited the British colonial legacy and annexed many independent small Nations forcibly.
After forcibly annexing Kangleipak which existed as an Asiatic sovereign State, the Government of India has been conspiring constantly to eradicate the cultural, social and political rights of the people of Kangleipak, it alleged.
The Government of India has been employing different policies to completely erase the fact that Kangleipak once existed as an Asiatic sovereign kingdom, it said.
At the same time, many Indian historians and some paid local historians have been trying to project an image that Kangleipak has been an integral part of India since the ancient period, it said.
After all its economic foundations were destroyed, Kangleipak has been flooded with all types of commodities imported from India. The Government of India has been working consistently to create a notion that Kangleipak cannot survive without aid from India, the outfit remarked.
Although elections held amid heavy security deployment with huge financial investment give an impression that Kangleipak is a free State, selection of leaders of legislators of National parties and constitution of Council of Ministers are all controlled by Delhi, it said.
All the top and key administrative posts of Kangleipak are held by outsiders or their loyalists. To keep the people of Kangleipak under permanent suppression is a constant policy of the Government of India, it alleged.
It said that the Government of India has been consistently following a policy of forced assimilation in Kangleipak.
In spite of all these policies of subjugation and assimilation, the people of Kangleipak have been standing firm against alien occupation, and PREPAK will carry on the liberation movement along with the masses, it asserted.
Overwhelmed by India’s deceitful policies, the political freedom of Kangleipak as well as its self-reliant economy have fallen apart.
The Indian education policy, which is a continuation of British colonial rule’s education policy, is producing youths who are seen as burdens, not assets; who are job seekers, not job creators, it said.
Drugged by India’s cloak of democracy, and unable to see the real democracy and electoral politics, the people of Kangleipak have been indulging in all kinds of violence during the elections. Even the priceless voting rights are being sold off in exchange for a meal, it said.
Noting that elections have been held several times after India allegedly annexed Kangleipak, the outfit asked whether these elections have brought any positive change.
Saying that the commemorative function of the 54th Statehood Day being organised by the State Government is anathema to the people, it appealed to all the people of Kangleipak to stay away from the Statehood Day function.