UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED… |
Courtesy: The Sangai Express 19 June, 2002 |
June 14 and 18 have come and gone and apart from remembering the supreme sacrifices made by the martyrs who laid down their lives to protect the territorial integrity of Manipur one invaluable lesson these two landmark dates should teach us is the need for unity whenever any issue that concerns the welfare of the Manipur people crops up. It was the unstinted and unyielding unity of the people that made the Centre see sense and roll back the geographical extension of the ceasefire between New Delhi and the NSCN (IM) by deleting the offending phrase “without territorial limits”. The 18 people who have been laid to rest at Kekrupat sacrificed their lives during the mammoth show and demonstrations of unity to preserve the age-old territorial boundary of Manipur. However all these noble concepts of unity and oneness are blown to smithereens when any signs or symptoms of disunity appear in public consumption. We all know that lack of unity has been the bane of Manipuri people and the British incursion which resulted in the now immortalized Khongjom War was a direct fall out of the acute disunity amongst the royalty of the day. We need not o go into the finer details of history to show the negative fall outs of disunity but it should be drummed into the senses of all concerned that when Manipur is passing through such a critical phase in her history disunity amongst any organizations which matter, can only be at the peril of the Manipuri people and her territorial sanctity. Over the years the State has seen the mushrooming of various voluntary organizations and yes student bodies all with the same intent of bettering the lot of the Manipuri but the trouble starts when these same organizations purporting to pursue the same goal develop diametrically opposite views and their disunity is laid bare before the public. Nothing could be more harmful to the morale and sentiments of the common people and by extension the interest of the state.
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