Imphal, September 28 2010: The chairman of Kanlei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), one of the most powerful insurgent organisations fighting against the Government of India and its armed forces for restoring the independence and sovereignty of Kangleipak, the erstwhile name of Manipur, has passed away yesterday.

He was being treated for lungs cancer for sometime.

He was over 68 years old.

He is survived by his wife, a son, a daughter and the KYKL, which is determined to follow the ideals of the Late leader, Langamba Mangang, Secretary of Publicity and Research, KYKL announced in a press release today.

The Central Committee of KYKL has decided to observe mourning for one week from September 30 .

During the period of mourning, the flag of the Lup will be flown half mast at all camps, units, battalion HQs, tactical HQs, etc., Langamba Mangang, on behalf of the Central Committee, informed every member/cadre of the Lup.

During this one week-mourning, there won't be any kind of feast, entertainment, music, etc.

at all the places of the Lup.

Langamba Mangang said that the Late leader, who was born on 9 February, Monday, 1942 was a beacon for KYKL.

He was the supreme teacher who taught all the members of the Lup directly or indirectly the principles of revolution.

Langamba said, since the early period of his life, the leader had always been associated with people's movements.

As a student leader, he baptised the student community of this land with nationalism.

Thus he became a supreme leader of the students.

Next, as a leader of the youth, he played a major role in building a massive flood of nationalist movement mainly participated by youths, thus becoming a pioneer in identity politics, the Secretary, Publicity and Research, KYKL said.

He was a leader who had invigorated the movment for cultural revivalism of the community, whose real identity was fading and was on the brink of complete extinction, in which mainly youths participated.

Finally, he joined the armed revolutionary movement by becoming an underground.

From the first step to the last step of his life, he was a leader who had worked for the Kanglei people without taking rest.

His demise is the loss of the KYKL's beacon.

Today the KYKL has become an orphan, Langamba Mangang lamented.

His contribution toward the revolutionary movement was that was the doctrine that "it won't pay if we are not united." Even while lying on the death bed, he did not stop uttering "try to unite unwaveringly, it's getting too late".

His last words of disciplining were "we are lacking in sacrifice for unification, this is not right." Though his doctrine appears easy and simple, KYKL believes it is the backbone of the revolutionary movement, Langamba Mangang said.

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