KCP – (People’s War Group) bans Singju festival

IMPHAL | Dec 12

The proscribed Kangliepak Communist Party (People’s War Group) has banned all sorts of artificial fairs and festivals including melas from being organised in the state. 

While a war of independence is currently being fought against the neo-imperialist India, one can observe that there is an incoming flood of fairs and festivals in this state, said a release signed by secretary, central media coordinator, Lenin Meitei. Many oppressed people of the world are raising their voices for self independence, it said. However, at a crucial moment in time when we cannot determine if our communities are still surviving or heading towards extinction, there is an ongoing trend of holding fairs and festivals as if there is no tomorrow, it maintained. It is most unfortunate that the people seem to be encouraging such activities, it added.  

People’s War Group-Marxist Center has observed that there is an agenda to distract the people’s revolutionary war for independence, it said. These artificial festivities like Melas take a key role in fulfilling the said agenda, it added.  People’s War Group-Marxist Center considers them as war tactics of Indian cultural colonialism; it said adding melas encourages gambing, and other illicit and immoral activities. There are reports of Mela owners sexually exploiting young girls and married women and 70 percent of the income from melas is taken outside the state, it further said. This exploits the economic –socio culture of the community, it added. 

Therefore the party appeals to those who are organising such melas to put an end to it immediately, it said. The party has banned All Manipur Mela Lup and the organising committee of Singju Festival, the release informed. The release warned that if any information about the people’s militia is shared to the machinery forces of Neo imperialist India, causing harm by going against the given warnings, then they will not be spared, it added.