Imphal, December 04: Promptly rejecting the story scheduled to be carried by Outlook magazine that Chief Minister O Ibobi had paid a sum of Rs 50 lakhs to KYKL and another Rs 1 crore to RPF, the KYKL today said that the supposed receipt issued by the outfit is nothing but �forgery, cheating and political victimization�.

In a statement, the outfit said that the lie of the Indian Army was exposed by its act of producing the supposed receipt issued by the KYKL as �credible evidence� and countered, �Will the Indian Government take it that General JJ Singh had given financial aid to the KYKL, if his name was written on the receipt?� On the December 4 issue, a number of newspapers in Manipur had carried the news story to be published by Outlook in its December 15 issue.

The story had said that Chief Minister O Ibobi had given Rs 50 lakhs to the KYKL and Rs 1 crore to the RPF.

KYKL admitted that they indeed take financial help from different people, including politicians, but not as much as Rs 50 lakhs from a single individual.

In future too KYKL will never take such a huge amount from a single individual, it asserted.

The story is nothing but an instance of the Indian Army using the Indian press to portray the revolutionary movement in the wrong light and to make sure that their puppet Government here serves their political purpose.

Two points have clearly emerged from the latest fiasco, said KYKL and added that in the first place the Indian Government is sending out the threat that the Chief Minister should dance to their tune or else he will be replaced and secondly to put a clamp on the revolutionary movement at this crucial juncture.

The outfit went on to explain that the Indian Government is trying to send the wrong message to the people that revolutionary parties are extorting huge sum of money from the public and leading a cosy and glamorous lifestyle.

It is with this agenda in mind, the Indian Army have been dubbing the revolutionary movement as a cottage industry, observed KYKL.

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