NEIDP backs movement
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 18 2018: Asserting that the MU issue has only snowballed to the present condition due to the Government's lackadaisical attitude to resolve the matter in time, North East India Development Party (NEIDP) has declared that it will back the movement carried out by MUSU, MUTA and MUSA.

The party has also strongly condemned the police action against the agitators that led to several students being injured and hospitalized.

Speaking to media persons while visiting Raj Medicity, North AOC, Imphal to give financial assistance to the injured students in police action NEIDP president Doukhomang Khongsai said that the long standing MU impasse may have been resolved in time if the Government and Central Government had seriously considered MUSU's allegations against their VC AP Pandey in the initial stage and done the needful.

The matter has now snowballed into a major crisis as the Government has the habit of turning a deaf ear until and unless there is bandh/general strike or a movement becomes very intense, he said adding that the MU impasse has completed almost 50 days.

Decrying the excessive police action against the students during the protests/agitations, Doukhomang who is also a former MLA pointed out that everyone has the right to protest against any dissatisfaction in a democratic set-up.

He further alleged that the State Government and its agencies have only tried to handle the MU issue through forceful means by assaulting students and protestors instead of trying to find amicable solutions.

The agitating students did not carry any sophisticated weapons or attempt to kill anyone or any security personnel during the protests.

However, the security personnel have beaten up the agitators as if they (the agitators) were not human beings, the NEIDP president lamented.

He also announced that NEIDP will back the movement of MUSU, MUTA and MUSA since it is a movement to make MU a place of sanctity and to reinstall academic atmosphere free from political influence.

A sum of Rs 20,000 (twenty thousand) was handed over to DESAM assistant general secretary Khundongbam Ravi by NEIDP president as financial assistance during the visit.

Many executive members of NEIDP, including its vice president O Malesh, general secretary (organization) Th Bopen, general secretary (administration) M Ranjit and general secretary (Central Working Committee) W Khelendra also visited Raj Medicity.

It may be mentioned here that DESAM general secretary Shital Oinam.and four other students, namely Moirangthem Linda, Soibam Manjuna Lourembam Bordas and Sharungbam are being treated at Raj Medicity.

All of them were injured during the course of protests organized at various places in the past few days.

Shital Oinam whose left shoulder was run over by a moving petrol tanker during a confrontation with the police will undergo an operation tomorrow at the hospital.

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