Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 13:
Categorically rubbishing the claim of the Indian army that Chief Minister O Ibobi had given financial assistance to the RPF, the outfit today said that it was nothing but a story hatched by the Indian army to get their pound of flesh.
In a statement issued to the press today, the outfit said that ever since Kangla was handed to the people and ever since the Armed Forces Special Powers Act was lifted from the Imphal Municipal areas, the Indian army have been waiting to extract their pound of flesh.
It is also a significant pointer to the fact that New Delhi sees the State Government and the political leaders of Manipur as their puppets who should dance to their tunes.
Chief Minister O Ibobi who had been executing the orders and directives of the high command was suddenly seen as a thorn and that is the precise reason why the receipt book story was cooked up, charged the RPF.
New Delhi had another sore point with the State Government over the supposed peace talk the Indian army had with some Kuki armed groups, said the statement added that the peace talk is nothing but a ploy to carve out a Kuki homeland at the expense of the State.
When the peace talk was not honoured by the State Government, the Indian army started scheming to extract their pound of flesh and exact revenge, added the outfit.
Citing an example, the outfit said that the RPF and UNLF had even sent a rejoinder to the Kolkata based The Telegraph refuting a news report even as the talk of plebiscite and peace talk was gaining momentum.
Left with no other alternative, the Indian army launched an offensive with the cooked up charge that the Chief Minister had given financial assistance to the RPF and KYKL, said the statement.
The political leaders of Manipur are mere puppets in the hands of New Delhi but since they are born and brought up in this land, the RPF has been waiting for a day for them to realise their follies and work for the welfare of the people.
It is the same case with the police commandos.
Despite the many offensives launched by police commandos, the RPF had desisted from hitting back as the police commandos too are all sons of the soil and they may one day realise their mistakes and take up the cause of the land and the people, added the statement.
Exhorting the people and all others to join the liberation movement, the outfit said that the only way is to decide our own future as the people of Manipur have no future with New Delhi at the helm of affairs.