Imphal, October 15 2009: Association of Premier State College Seniors (APSCS), Manipur has urged the Governor to summon a special session of the State Assembly to discuss the present state of affairs.

A representation to the Governor signed by the general secretary of the Association of Premier State College Seniors (APSCS), Dr AK Chishti observed that a special session of the Assembly dwelling solely on the 'emotive' issue will lend effect to the perpetuation of the conventional wisdom 'Parliament is the mirror of public opinion' .

The representation pointed out that the Tehelka expose of the killing of a young pregnant woman and a youth at the crowded Khwai Bazar caused to spring up two diametrically opposite views.

In the showdown between the two opposite views the government and the public uproar, students are scratching earth in their hunger for knowledge because of the non-functioning of the institutions.

"What is most appalling is the way academic life has been paralysed affecting the intellectual growth that requires proper nourishment at every level of its growth.

Needless to mention, the marvelous idea, 'the progress of a nation does not lie in its vast natural resources, but in its intellectual growth," the memo noted.

The APSCS memo pointed out that the public have rejected the 'judicial inquiry' on the matter due to the alleged government wont to throw previous such cases into cold storage allowing them to face a natural death.

Harking back to the association's memorandum to the Administrative Reform Commission of India on the matter of the AFSPA being overlapped on each other, the APSCS memo conveys that the process of bringing in of the state that left behind a history of 2000 year old kingdom into the nation's family has been construed as that of 'coercive accession' by the younger generation.

It mentioned that the association had foretold the inevitability that would descend on the state if the 'malaise' remains unattended to.

It further suggests that removal of obstacles laying ahead on the path of understanding will perhaps help assuage the wounded feeling.

The memorandum remonstrated, that mounting pressure with force perpetrated by military, paramilitary forces with 'terror in the eyes,' and a few over-alert state police engaging in unlawful activities can only aggravate the situation in the state.

It urged the Governor to make a positive move towards this end.

"We find it difficult to erase from our memory the heart-warming exclamation that smacks of the application of the PM's concern for the people's appeal for the repeal of AFSPA.

Now we are full of remorse that we were induced into believing that Reddy Commission's finding could well be the determining factor for the repeal of the Act that has left the people in a nightmarish situation," the memo states.

It added, "We feel as though the report had been thrown in an abyss, when actually the finding was in favour of repeal".

Stating that the way academic life has been paralysed affecting the intellectual growth is appalling, it observed that the progress of a nation does not lie in its vast natural resources, but in its intellectual growth.

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