Imphal, February 24 2009: The revolutionary People's Front (RPF), which is one of the underground rebel organisations operating in Manipur banned by the Government of India, will celebrate the 30th foundation of the outfit tomorrow.

On the occasion, the party, like in the past years, will observe Independence Demand Day tommorow.

President of RPF, Irengbam Chaoren, in his message conveyed to the people in connection with the occasion, called for a real unity amongst the people and the insurgent organisations of Manipur to build a strong and dynamic Manipur.

He stated that it is necessary to build a united Manipur honestly without keeping any grudge against anyone, irrespective of communities and ethnic groups, valley and hills, religion, etc.

Conveying warm greetings to the people, Chaoren charged that while India has been trying to upset the economy of Manipur, as globalisation has reached Manipur, a number of new things has also arrived in the state.

Owing to necessity and desire, the people, even if they don't have money, find ways good or bad, shameful or not, to purchase things.

While the people of Manipur have been facing the hardships under the colonial economy, with the arrival of globalisation, yet another economic exploitation has added to the people's sufferings.

Besides, if the present global financial crisis is also taken into account, what kind of situation we shall find ourselves in, Chaoren asked.

In the earlier times, there was no Zamindari system (feudalism) in Manipur like that of India in which only one person could produce.

In those days, every household in Manipur had its own land to produce which was more than enough for sustenance of the family and used to help maintain the economy of the country, and everyone lived in an equal standard.

But today, outsiders have controlled all the wealth of Manipur and have taken away everything, Chaoren stated.

He rued that Manipuris are no longer the owners in Manipur, the migrants have become the owners.

Therefore it has become necessary for reviving the traditional economy of Manipur, to make the people become true owners of the wealth of Manipur, to make the people enter trade and commerce, and control it.

In that event, Manipur will become the land of nothing lacking and nothing excess where there is no tension of poverty and no greed of excessive wealth.

This will enable the people to save the themselves from the exploitation of colonial economy, onslaught of globalisation and impact of the global financial crisis. To be conluded.

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