Kuki Inpi Sadar Hills calls on Kukis to abstain from voting
Kangpokpi Correspondent17 Apr 2024
The Kuki Inpi Sadar Hills made it clear that their approach to the Lok Sabha Polls isn’t about “boycotting” but rather opting to “abstain from voting.”
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The Kuki Inpi Sadar Hills made it clear that their approach to the Lok Sabha Polls isn’t about “boycotting” but rather opting to “abstain from voting.”
One AK 47 rifle and a folding INSAS rifle were recovered.
Two village volunteers injured in a gunfight between Kuki militants and Meitei village volunteers in Tengnoupal district, Manipur.
Mayang Imphal Apunba Meira Paibis and Yumnam Huidrom Apunba Meira Paibis on Tuesday took a firm stand that they will not take part in the upcoming 18th Lok Sabha Election.
The Kuki stand is quite mystifying. One moment, they will play the victim card to the hilt by bombarding the national media and social media with concocted historical narratives and false propaganda and in the not-so-distant past, as a victim of an imagined ‘genocide’ started by the majority Meitei community.
The state BJP leaders cannot even convince Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a worthwhile statement regarding the present Manipur crisis or to visit the state or to meet the state MLAs in New Delhi, and they had the audacity to seek votes in the name of Narendra Modi.
Come election time, every candidate will come and promise to work for the inclusion of the eight assembly constituencies to the Inner Manipur constituency. Yet, nobody cares after winning the elections.
While the women and children are huddled together in relief camps, their male counterparts seek shelter in a community hall without walls, fences, or electricity guarded by a meagre 20 personnel of the IRB.
The election to the Lok Sabha has brought out some demands to postpone the election in Manipur as the situation is abnormal and there can be no free and fair election. On the other hand, differences have cropped up within the Kuki community with the UKLF stating that they will support the BJP candidate in the election on the ground that it was the BJP which initiated talks.
Well, the Election Commission must have broadly thought of how the deployment of civilian personnel is going to be done while deciding on the conduct of Lok Sabha elections, whatever be the status of ethnic relations. However, it would be interesting to watch how the Commission does it.
Keeping aside the matter of involvement of foreign mercenaries, we have looked deeper into the question of who is footing the bill for all the sophisticated arms and ammunition besides explosive material which is fuelling the conflict. There is talk about drug cartels taking care of the expenses in furthering the clashes. But one has to be sure.
The Manipur government must roll back the newly created districts and re-organize to keep all the indigenous minorities under one umbrella and not let them further succumb to the divisive political policies.
The situation in Manipur is ripe to usher in responsible voting so that the best candidate is elected. If there is no good candidate, NOTA is always there. In fact there must be a law that if NOTA garners maximum votes, no candidate be declared as elected.
Kuki militants set ablaze a Tata Truck dumper which they had hijacked from two Muslims on Thursday.
The United Meitei Pangal Committee (UPMC) on Friday strongly condemned the physical assault on two individuals of the Meitei Pangal community in Moreh on Thursday.
The two victims were assaulted for providing stones for construction of Manipur Commando barrack at border town Moreh.
Kukis keep asserting the presence of ‘buffer zone’ and it is not at all strange given the nature of relationship the Indian security establishment had cultivated over the years with the Kukis.
“The government must answer and also clarify on the status of the SoO which formally ended on February 29."
The decision came after a short-duration discussion on the excesses and atrocities committed by Kuki UG groups and insurgents under the SoO agreement.
Keeping Manipur intact while taking along the various communities, big or small, was first and foremost in the minds of Meiteis.