Imphal, September 21 2009: Decrying the alleged undue interference from the side of NSUI and AISF in connection with the ongoing public agitation over the July 23 Khwairamband Bazar incident, AMSU, MSF and KSA have jointly announced their common decision of taking up befitting action against the two student wings of Congress-I and CPI respectively.

In a joint statement, AMSU, MSF and KSA questioned whether NSUI and AISF would have reacted in the same manner if either Sanjit and Rabina who were killed in the Khwairamband Bazar incident happened to their volunteers.

If NSUI and AISF were indeed concerned about education then why they should be remaining silent over lack of necessary infrastructures in many educational institutions ?, the joint statement questioned.

In response to the appeal of ATSUM to call off the ongoing class boycott agitation, the joint statement said that just as ATSUM had been compelled to carry on with its blockade along the National Highway until fulfilment of its demands, AMSU, MSF and KSA, though welcome such appeals, are not in positive to give up since the public demand for resignation of Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh and punishment of the police commandos involved in the Khwairamband Bazar incident are yet to be realised.

As to the appeal of the teachers' association, the joint statement explained that the decision of class boycott call had been taken after a serious deliberation.

In case, the teachers want resumption of normal classes at the earliest possible, then they should help in exerting pressure on the Government, the joint statement added.

Maintaining that AMSU, MSF and KSA have no ear to listen to the appeal for calling of the class boycott agitation at the moment, the joint statement that the three student bodies have reaffirmed their stand of ensuring proper implementation of the boycott call.

So if any Govt or private schools were found conducting class in defiance of the boycott call then disturbance would be caused at such schools and if the classes were conducting with deployment of security forces, then the schools concerned should be closed down permanently from the 2010 session, the joint statement of AMSU, MSF and KSA warned.

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