A team comprising of Tamenglong Autonomous District Council ADC members led by Chairman Namsinrei Panmei met various central leaders and apprise them on the current situation of Manipur Source Hueiyen News Service Daniel Kamei
A team comprising of Tamenglong Autonomous District Council ADC members led by Chairman Namsinrei Panmei met various central leaders and apprise them on the current situation of Manipur Source Hueiyen News Service Daniel Kamei
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With the withdrawal of nomination papers of one candidate, the total number of candidates in the by election to Thangmeiband AC and Thongju AC have been reduced to six Source The Sangai Express
With the withdrawal of nomination papers of one candidate, the total number of candidates in the by election to Thangmeiband AC and Thongju AC have been reduced to six Source The Sangai Express
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Delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of Naga Archives and Research Center NARC on Saturday at Toulazouma, Dimapur, historian and political analyst, Dr Lokendra Arambam delivered a fascinating insight into how Manipur provide a critical subtext…
Delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of Naga Archives and Research Center NARC on Saturday at Toulazouma, Dimapur, historian and political analyst, Dr Lokendra Arambam delivered a fascinating insight into how Manipur provide a critical subtext to the Naga political struggle Source Hueiyen News Service NNN
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The National Identity Pro tection Committee NIPCO , Ereipak Enaat Chanura Loinasillon EECHAL , Kon thoujam Maning Tribal and Konthoujam Mamang Lagai rong organised a discussion session on peaceful co exis tence at Konthoujam Maning tribal community h…
The National Identity Pro tection Committee NIPCO , Ereipak Enaat Chanura Loinasillon EECHAL , Kon thoujam Maning Tribal and Konthoujam Mamang Lagai rong organised a discussion session on peaceful co exis tence at Konthoujam Maning tribal community hall today Source The Sangai Express
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Hmar Students’ Association Jiribam Unit HSAJU Zeliangrong Student Union Jiribam Area ZSUJA Kuki Student Organisation KSO J T and Young Paite Association YPA , Jiribam appealed all to immediately revoke the ban imposed on Jiribam Model High Sch…
Hmar Students’ Association Jiribam Unit HSAJU Zeliangrong Student Union Jiribam Area ZSUJA Kuki Student Organisation KSO J T and Young Paite Association YPA , Jiribam appealed all to immediately revoke the ban imposed on Jiribam Model High School JMHS and Blooming Flower Children’s Foundation School BFCFS in the interest of students Source Hueiyen News Service
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IMPHAL, Nov 7: Security forces claimed to have arrested two cadres of KCP (P) and a sympathiser of UNLF during separate counter insurgency operations. A statement issued by the PRO
IMPHAL, Nov 7: Security forces claimed to have arrested two cadres of KCP (P) and a sympathiser of UNLF during separate counter insurgency operations.
A statement issued by the PRO Police, the KCP cadres have been identified as Laishram Inao Singh alias Loya, 30, son of (L) L Binoy Singh of Phayeng Mamang Leikai and Konjengbam Amar Singh alias Nanao, 30, son of K Joy Singh of Jiribam Golathon Bazar.
They have been arrested by a combine team of Bishnupur Police Commando and 12th Bihar Regiment on Friday from Meitram, it said.
It further said that based on receiving reliable information, the combined team conducted search operation at the area and arrested the two persons.
Investigations revealed that both were involved in extortion of money from general public and business establishments of Imphal area and also involved in threatening the general public by using fire arms and explosives to extort money for party fund, it said.
While a case has been registered at Nambol Police Station and further investigation is going on, added the statement.
Meanwhile, on same day, a combine team of Bishnupur Commando and 6th Assam Rifles rounded up a woman sympathiser of UNLF militant namely Salam Ichan Devi alias Abem, 22 daughter of S Deva of Keibul Forest Mamang from Nganukon area.
The statement said that she was involved in recruiting new cadres and extortion of money from general public and government servants in Bishnupur for party fund and a case has been registered at Moirang Police Station and further investigation is going on.
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IMPHAL, November 7: The Association of Premier State College Seniors, Manipur (APSCS) representatives including its president K Chandradhan Singh, general secretary Dr AK Chishti, joint secretary Dr O Kumar Singh
IMPHAL, November 7: The Association of Premier State College Seniors, Manipur (APSCS) representatives including its president K Chandradhan Singh, general secretary Dr AK Chishti, joint secretary Dr O Kumar Singh and treasurer Dr H Madhusudan Singh had met GOI interlocutor RN Ravi at Classic Grande on November 4 at 10:20 am.
Speaking at a press conference held today afternoon at APSCS office in DM College campus, Dr AK Chishti said that they told RN Ravi that it is improper to keep the Naga Peace Accord signed on August 3, 2015 between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) still as a classified document for more than 3 months.
He said the APSCS has demanded for making the so called “Frame Work Agreement” public to end the guesswork and that 3 other stakeholders which included Manipur, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh should not be kept in the dark while informing that the representatives of the region were sidelined in course of the event.
Dr AK Chisti, further quoting the interlocutor said that the state can’t be disintegrated or broken in response to query raised on the issue of reunification of the Nagas.
“The mind of the Centre is to do something after hearing their complaints. So that they manage their affairs by themselves say in the form of District Councils in the hill areas and not more than that,” Dr Chishti further said quoting the interlocutor.
The GOI interlocutor reportedly expressed GOI’s desire to settle the issue in a peaceful manner by removing age old misunderstandings among the communities in the region to ensure that the people here co-exist as brothers in the natural way, he said.
“He also appealed to us to also reach out to the hill brothers. We also wish that it should be our reciprocal basis,” he continued.
He revealed that the APSCS members told the interlocutor that APSCS’s opinion is not the opinion of all; it is the opinion of their members/association like that of NSCN (IM)’s secretary Muivah who had also represented his organization in various platform.
‘Democratic Norms’ should be followed in matters of registering of public opinions through Representatives or Assembly or Parliament, said the APSCS secretary, claiming that Muivah is not an MLA or an MP.
The Centre should without fail collect views through Assemblies—Nagaland and Manipur for that matter, the APSCS members urged the interlocutor, Dr Chishti said.
Dr Chishti further said that the territorial integrity of the State is not free from threat as there is no full proof as only verbal protection pronouncements were made by the central authorities and the leaders so far.
“What we need is a constitutional protection to end the claim and counter claims over the years,” he said.
“Manipur and other small/tiny states can be disintegrated under the Article 3 of the Constitution of India anytime. There is no constitutional protection at all,” he said.
“If Article 3 is not amended by the Parliament this fear will always loom large,” he added.
APSCS had prayed for amendment of Article 3 by giving valid reason to the Centre and also we remember our State Assembly submitting its resolution to the Centre recently but without no consideration still, he said.
“We appeal to all the MLAs/MPs of Manipur to once again come forward and be with the people (their electorates concerned) and who will be backing to create history.”
“We also appeal to the brothers in the hills of Manipur that based on looks or ethnicity or simply of being tribe terminologically, thinking of joining other family leaving their age old family be reviewed.”
“We should not forget that together we defended our tiny kingdom Manipur from outsides invasions in the past.”
“It will be in the best interest if we co-exist by not turning against each other. Let us forgive and forget all those omissions commissions simply,” he added.
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IMPHAL, November 7: The KB enterprises, a tour operator in the state responsible for the brining of Golden Myanmar Flight, has appealed the Maoist Communist party of Manipur to lift
IMPHAL, November 7: The KB enterprises, a tour operator in the state responsible for the brining of Golden Myanmar Flight, has appealed the Maoist Communist party of Manipur to lift its ban imposed on the firm taking into account the initiative it had taken to put Manipur on the road map of the world.
A press conference was convene in this regards today in Imphal wherein the proprietor of KB enterprises, Pangambam Kunjabihari, clarified that the initiative taken by his firm was not sponsored by any Government agencies.
He claimed that it was with the initiative of his firm the first international flight (Golden Myanmar Airlines) landed at Imphal Airport on November 21, the inaugural day of Manipur Sangai Festival 2013. With the landmark event, Imphal Airport was included in the global map of international airports on that very historic day, he asserted.
In 2014, KB enterprises brought the second spell of the same international flight the Golden Myanmar Flight during the 7th edition of Manipur Sangai Festival, 2014, he said adding that till date the Golden Myanmar Airlines remains the only international flight that has ever landed at the Imphal international Airport.
The proprietor of KB enterprises said that is working relentlessly to start other international flights operational from the Imphal Airport and also arranging to bring back the international Golden Myanmar Flight again to Imphal during the upcoming Manipur Sangai festival 2015 this November.
Unfortunately, KB enterprises have faced obstacles, the most recent being a ban and warning to stop its business regarding the so awaited international flight, he rued.
According to him, the ban has invoke a second thought in the minds of the tourist both state and domestic tourist, who intended to travel to Myanmar with the help of the Golden Myanmar Flight giving an adverse effect in ticket sales.
Explaining how elaborate the task to organised the flight, he revealed that the KB enterprises has put in a lot of effort and money in persuading the Government of India as well as the Myanmar’s authorities in bringing the Golden Myanmar flight to Imphal.
He had to travel to New Delhi and Myanmar several times spending a lot of money to make the historic flight happen and yet he did all these only to make Imphal Airport as an international Airport and to sustain its international tag, continued Pangamba.
He further pointed out that as per the civil aviation rules of India, no Indian Citizen is allowed to board on a foreign chartered flight. However, in the case of the chartered Golden Myanmar Flight visiting Manipur, such rule was exempted giving the people of Manipur, the rare opportunity of travelling to Myanmar in a chartered flight, he added.
Given the circumstances, losing such an opportunity not only is a lost for the KB enterprises but for the entire people.
The proprietor said that his firm regards and respects the suggestion of the organisation as both are working for the progress and welfare of the people of Manipur.
He further appealed the people and the State Government to support and co-operate in his endeavour in promoting Manipur as an international tourist destination.
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JIRIBAM, November 7: The All Jiribam Contract Lecturer’s Association (AJICLA) will launch cease work strike from November 9 in pursuance of its demand for regularization of service of Lecturers working
JIRIBAM, November 7: The All Jiribam Contract Lecturer’s Association (AJICLA) will launch cease work strike from November 9 in pursuance of its demand for regularization of service of Lecturers working on contractual basis in the Higher Secondary Schools of the State.
The decision of the cease work stir was taken during a meeting of AJICLA, said members of the association in a press conference held at Jiribam Higher Secondary School, Jiribam in presence of contract lecturers of Jiribam.
According to advisor of AJICLA Kh Indikumar Singh, the lecturers on per time basis were appointed by Th Devendra Singh in 1992 when he was the Education Minister of the State government to meet the shortage of staff in the secondary level of the schools with a meager monthly remuneration of Rs 1000.
Later after several agitations by the association and Part time lecturers on March 13, 2013, the part time service of the Lecturer was converted into contractual basis. The lecturers were allowed to enjoy the basic pay plus grade pay of the 6th ROP amounting to Rs 13,700 as monthly salary, he said.
President of AJICLA N Sanjib Kumar Singh said that among the contract lecturers, some of them have been serving from the last 20 years and they are likely to be retired in next two-three years.
He further said that they had met with the concern authorities several times to highlight their grievance and the authorities had shown sympathy towards the aggrieved teachers.
As the teachers have been reeling under untold miseries owing to mere salary, the association decided to launch cease work strike with no option left, he said.
Advisor of AJICLA H Rajenkumar Singh lamented that the contractual lecturers of the Higher Secondary School are the long sufferers and their fates remain uncertain due to inaction of the government on the service regularization.
He said that it has become a hard task for them to maintain their families with meager monthly earning.
Vice- president of the association M Romeo Singh said that the contract lecturers are not getting their salaries for the last nine months and asked the concerned authorities how long the teachers will provide quality education with starving stomach.
Meanwhile, the AJICLA has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister requesting for service regularization of the contract Lecturers serving in the Higher Secondary Schools on humanity ground.
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KANGPOKPI, November 7: Jwalamukhi Battalion of Senapati Brigade under Red Shield Division performed the last rites of Paratrooper Lucky Poudiyal with full military honor yesterday at Kanglatongbi cremation Hall. According
KANGPOKPI, November 7: Jwalamukhi Battalion of Senapati Brigade under Red Shield Division performed the last rites of Paratrooper Lucky Poudiyal with full military honor yesterday at Kanglatongbi cremation Hall.
According to Shiva Kumar Basnet, Pradhan of Kanglatongbi Gram Panchayat, Lucky Poudiyal was a reaving soldier of elite Para Commandios based in Jammu & Kashmir, who lost his life in an unfortunate accident on November 4 when he was hit by a truck on National Highway 2 while riding a motor cycle.
He continued that the last rites, was carried out with full military honour under the supervision and presence of Commandant, Jwalamukhi Battalion of Senapati Brigade under Red Shield Division.
The Commandant extended sympathies of Senapati Brigade and Red Shield Division to the grief stricken family, Basnet said, adding that the Commandant also met with the family members of the deceased soldier and extended condolence while assuring of all help and support.
The Commandant also assured help and support to the bereaved family, he said.
Meanwhile, the Gorkha community also extended their grief and condolence to the tragedy struck family members and lauded the Jwalamukhi Battalion for paying full military honor to the departed soul.
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IMPHAL, November 7: Chief Minister Okram Ibobi, has urged the people not to vote for candidates with no principles and consider election as a business, continuing the war of words
IMPHAL, November 7: Chief Minister Okram Ibobi, has urged the people not to vote for candidates with no principles and consider election as a business, continuing the war of words in the run up to the bye election scheduled to be held on November 21.
The Chief Minister was delivering his speech as a chief guest during a one day political conference held at Khongman Zone-3 community hall organise by Khongman Development Committee.
Okram Ibobi further taking a jibe on rival party said that the Trinamool Congress is a party that doesn’t follow any principle and consider politics as business.
He further said that the public must have consciences while electing their representative that the Congress has delivered its promises for the development of every assembly constituencies, adding that he assured in the future too, the Congress will work for the up-liftmen and development of the people.
The Chief Minister claimed that the public must have realised how BJP fooled the people by giving only lip service and false hope of development when the reality was completely reverse. There is communal strife and uncertainty wherever there is the rule of BJP, added the Chief Minister.
He further claimed that since the BJP lead NDA came to power at the centre, many schemes which were once part of the flagship programme of the Congress government are either scrapped or given new names to use it in their (BJP) favour.
Pointing out that Manipur have made it presence felt in the recent past like securing first position in health sector for low infant mortality rate, Chief Minister O Ibobi illuminated that there are many things to be done. However, to do so the need of the hour is the supports of the people, continued Ibobi.
The candidate of Thongju AC, Bijoy Koijam highlighted the works done by him in his assembly constituency during his tenure, and he assured the public in future to work towards bringing more development in constituency.
The conference was also attended by PHED Minister, I Hemochandra; Social Welfare Minister, AK Mirabai; Khangbok MLA, O Landhoni; Commerce and Industry Minister, Govindas Konthoujam and other Congress legislators and party workers.
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KANGPOKPI, November 7: Three vehicles lifted three months back from Assam, which had been fortunately seized by Senapati Police after apprehending the lifters, were handed over to the respective owners
KANGPOKPI, November 7: Three vehicles lifted three months back from Assam, which had been fortunately seized by Senapati Police after apprehending the lifters, were handed over to the respective owners today.
According to police source, on June 21 last, a team of Senapati Police led by Inspector Riamei Jonah, OC Senapati Police Station along with ASI Md. Ajahar conducted a surprise frisking and checking at Khongnem village along National Highway 2 apprehended three vehicle lifters.
They were identified as Soram Pritam Singh, 24 son of S. Rajkumar Singh of Cachar Ramnagar village under Dholai Police Station of Assam; Mutum Rajesana Singh, 30 son of M Khambaton of Kontha Ahallup Mayai Leikai under Heingang Police Station under Imphal East and Ningthem Manoj Singh, 18 son of Puno Singh of Lanka under Lanka Police Station in Golaghat District, Assam.
The three motorbikes they had lifted were Bajaj Discover 125 CC bearing registration number AS09D-1655; Bajaj Discover 100CC bearing registration number AS02F-5379 and Hero Glamour bearing registration number AS06P-5210.
They had lifted the vehicles from Lanka, Assam and headed towards Imphal along the National Highway 2, said the police source.
An FIR was registered under No. 20(06)2015 SPT-PS U/S 379/413/34 IPC and they were lodged in Sajiwa Jail, Imphal, it said.
The source said that the vehicles owners were later identified as Nirupama Terunpi, wife of M. Cro of Diphu under Karbi Anglong District, Assam; Girin Tomuli, 60 son of Late Vishnuram Tomulu of Lanka LP Road Ward No.10 under Nagaon District, Assam and Jaidev Dehingia, 27 son of Bholendranath Dehingia of Bamkalakhowa village under Dibrugarh District, Assam.
All the vehicles were handed over to the respective owners today after producing proper Zima order from the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Senapati, added the sources.
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Manipur provides critical sub-text in Naga struggle: Meitei scholar
Eastern Mirror “As a neighbour Manipur provides a very critical sub-text in the Naga Independence struggle,” he said while adding, “Because Manipur as a historically established entity, the issue of ethnic relations had become mired with issues of the modern state’s … |
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Manipur provides critical sub-text in Naga struggle: Meitei scholar
Eastern Mirror “As a neighbour Manipur provides a very critical sub-text in the Naga Independence struggle,” he said while adding, “Because Manipur as a historically established entity, the issue of ethnic relations had become mired with issues of the modern state's … |
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Manipur by-poll: One withdraws candidature, six in the fray
Nagaland Post After one withdraws his candidature, three candidates each will fight the by-poll in both the Assembly constituencies. The three candidates in the fray for Thongju by-poll are Thongam Bishwajit (BJP), Bijoy Koijam (INC) and Dr G Tonsana (Manipur … Verbal duel between BJP, Cong hots up Between pro-Manipur and anti- Manipur …The Sangai Express Congress the real enemy of Manipur, O Joy replies to Gaikhangam’s chargesKanglaOnline BJP is anti-thesis to Manipur: Dy CME-Pao.net |
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Manipur by-poll: One withdraws candidature, six in the fray
Nagaland Post After one withdraws his candidature, three candidates each will fight the by-poll in both the Assembly constituencies. The three candidates in the fray for Thongju by-poll are Thongam Bishwajit (BJP), Bijoy Koijam (INC) and Dr G Tonsana (Manipur … Verbal duel between BJP, Cong hots up Between pro-Manipur and anti- Manipur … Congress the real enemy of Manipur, O Joy replies to Gaikhangam's charges BJP is anti-thesis to Manipur: Dy CM |
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There is a tendency in Manipur of everything to always return to square one. The avenue for a way out of this depressing stagnancy eludes the imagination of one and
There is a tendency in Manipur of everything to always return to square one. The avenue for a way out of this depressing stagnancy eludes the imagination of one and all, including our leaders, intellectuals and the numerous NGOs in the field of social works. The shared obsession seems to be to analyse, dissect, scrutinize and rubbish selected chapters of the past compulsively and then blame each other or else some external agency or the other for all the misery and misfortune that is everybody’s fate today. Maybe there is some truth in this vision but it certainly cannot be the whole truth. To think this is so would be to reduce the social organism that we all are part of, to a collection of simplistic equations of stimulus and responses only. And this we know cannot be, for the being and the soul of any society is far more complex, and we would even contend, infinitely so. The difficulty in sizing up a society or its mores completely lies in this complexity and not to any attributable flaws of the past, as the current intellectual tradition in social analysis in the state seems to suggest. If social issues were so clear cut, and there were no ambiguities about remedial measures, most social problems ought to have disappeared by now everywhere in the world. Just as the greatest thinkers the world has known discovered, or others after they are long gone too fathomed, this cannot be ever so.
The linearity of our social analyses had had some very serious consequences. For instance we seem to be a society which sees salvation in the past, at the cost of even ignoring the future. From the point of view of this limited linear vision, this is totally understandable. For from this vantage, at least in its structure as a chronological sequence of events, there is a definiteness about the past and this makes it seem comparatively simple to grasp, or at least not out of grasping distance. We would not say the same thing about the substance that gave form to this structure, but even here the same definiteness associated with past events thins out the desperation to get the diagnosis right. The unfortunate thing is, this approach in our effort to come to grip with the past, is often extended to our quest for an understanding of the future. This, we would contend is flawed, for one thing there is nothing linear or definite about the future. All our problem solving efforts have seldom acknowledged that the future is about discovering what is possible. The foundations of our mainstream as well as the numerous prevalent alternate politics today have never been built on any such broad platform, negating in the process the wellknown one line definition of politics as “an art of the possible”. Unlike the past which is dead and circumscribed to the realm of memory only, the field for the future is wide open. We cannot erase the Chahi Taret Khuntakpa chapter in our history, but creative vision of the future can prevent similar historical catastrophes.
While we cannot possibly forget our past, or ignore what we have inherited from it, we do feel there is an urgent need for our society to tone down some of its claustrophobic obsession with the past and develop a vision for the future that is not everything about undoing the past but envisioned precisely as “an art of the possible”. Only when this understanding becomes the standard, realistic terms for resolutions to most of our conflict situations, both internal and external, can begin to dawn. If the question is about past wrongs and their impacts on the present and the future, surely as creative, autonomous beings that all human individuals are, we can overcome these impacts. In structural terms, democracy guarantees this possibility. In spiritual terms too, the prison of colonial modernity of formerly colonized worlds, has never been able to contain this same creativity that gives the individual the capability of sizing up his predicament and affect the changes necessary to overcome that state of mind. It is depressing that our public discourses seldom have approached the future without the past as the sole measuring tape. Let our future go beyond the status of being just a response to our past.
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By RK Lakhi Kant Fifteen years back when I left New Delhi for Manipur the Sai Baba group was not so visible in New Delhi. But as I see it
By RK Lakhi Kant
Fifteen years back when I left New Delhi for Manipur the Sai Baba group was not so visible in New Delhi. But as I see it now the problem to be discussed here was about to sprout then. And again, years later, when I was planning to move down to New Delhi as I was getting fed up with the terrorism in Manipur, I noticed around that time the Sai Baba group was spreading it’s influence considerably in Manipur, which is quite a remote place with a small community.That led me to believe that conditions would not be good in New Delhi either. Why I was thinking in these terms was because I had heard and read from authoritative sources that the Sai Baba is quite a crook. New Delhi I found was in a very bad shape with Delhites deifying the Sai Baba in all temples in the city. And also there was hardly any shop in Delhi which did not have a picture or two of the Sai Baba displayed prominently or sharing the worship area with other gods in small altars, in the shops. And the consequences are there for all to see although the people seem not to see or refuse to address the cause because of mass delusion created by easy money. And as I had mentioned in a article in the Imphal Free Press on February 6, 2014 skin diseases like vitiligo/leucoderma is rampant, there is an unusually high occurrence of baldness apart from gastric illnesses, infertility and mental behavioral problems in New Delhi.
At least leucoderma and baldness, because of their easy visibility, are diseases which can be physically counted at random in the streets and markets of New Delhi – first hand proof if anyone wants to know more about these diseases and their spread in New Delhi. In Delhi, one can see many men and women every day who are affected by leucoderma. While leucoderma was a very rare ailment noticed only once in a long while, nowadays leucoderma affected persons are seen daily in New Delhi. There are others also whose bodily and facial skins are as if bleached repeatedly with large doses of bleaching agents. This is apart from the full blown cases of vitiligo/leucoderma where the whole body is affected by white patches. Some internet sites I visited pointed out that forget about there being a cure for leucoderma, one does not even know what causes this disease. Diseases without cure are commonly attributed to the realm of god and supernatural elements in which the patients find solace. And the Sai Baba is claiming to be precisely this element. Whenever there is lying and cheating against the scriptural truths enunciated by God, the masses get affected adversely in some way or the other, as is evident in this case of unethical holding of high stakes in political, economic and religious affairs by the Sai Baba group in cahoots with their political and business connections. God in other words means morality, ethics, spirituality, truth and such similar synonyms and whenever self proclaimed godmen like the Sai Baba try to represent these superior qualities in men everyone falls sick. In the case of these diseases too we are far from being presumptuous when we lay the blame on detractors of god like Sai Baba.
Like in the instance of leucoderma, the same goes for baldness too. In previous times children used to snicker behind the backs of bald men whenever they came across one. But today the disease is widespread and one can only wonder at the lack of awareness even among those affected by the disease mentioned here. Anywhere in the city I go, in every group of about 20 or so men, I have physically counted on any day four to five men in various stages of diseased baldness. In buses, metro rails, markets etc., wherever people gather in good numbers, the problem of abnormal balding and graying of hair can be seen plainly. The balding is in most cases around the sensitive top part of the head called the cranium. And in the Delhi buses one can find it very funny and also tragic at the same time that we have been unable to notice this illness which is very obvious when we are standing or seated in the rear portion of the buses and see these bald heads bobbing up and down and sideways. Citing Indian trichologists and foreign experts Anand Holla of the Mumbai Mirror informs in a Times of India article in March, 2014 titled “Why men are balding in their 20s” that “premature balding is turning out to be more of a trend than rarity. And the way we live our lives has more to do with it than genes or plain bad luck.”
The instance of the diseases mentioned here spreading and the instance of the foolish, but lucrative, mass worship of Sai Baba in New Delhi has happened simultaneously. This is not just another coincidence but a confirmation of the way the Sai Baba group has caused permanent damage in most cases to the health of ordinary Delhites who have no way to confirm the cause of illness spreading in New Delhi, except by a psychologically painful personal experience which the patients find difficult to explain. Yes, I am putting the blame for the increasing number of those affected by the diseases mentioned here on the Sai Baba group. I had reported on the same lines in these columns in Feb, 2014 also. Statistical reports also show that New Delhi had the highest percentage of leucoderma patients at one time in the Indian sub-continent. Practical observation also shows that during these times New Delhi accepted the Sai Baba as the most worshipable popular figure and display of such sentiments is one reason for the Sai Baba empire being worth Rs. 40,000 crores at the time the Sai Baba died in 2011.
Also, the last decade or so of Congress rule in the country, just before the government changed, was also the bountiful years for business, but disastrous as far as health is concerned in New Delhi. And it is not just a coincidence that Sai Baba thrived under Congress years. This trend started when people like Narasimha Rao, the then Indian Prime Minister and leader of millions of men in the Congress party did not find anything wrong in announcing publically that he is a devotee of the Sai Baba. In the same manner Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were also not discreet in attending the funeral of the trickster in 2011.
Not many may be aware but even a casual look at the heels of men and women wearing chapals or barefeet shows discoloration and depigmentation in the soles and the doctors are clueless about the cause. The diseases as far as I have observed in the streets, markets, holy places, while travelling and while shopping is quite similar in proportion to what an epidemic scale might be. Gastric problems are also linked to skin problems like leucoderma and also falling hair. All the diseases which we have discussed in this write-up seem to be interconnected in some way in a subtle manner. Is it once more a mere coincidence that gastric outbreaks have occurred in parts of New Delhi in the past 10-15 years, and even before that, when it was a stronghold of the Congress. Dr. Brett King in a report in the Hindu newspaper “Breakthrough in treating leucoderma” has mentioned that a drug used in curing arthritis has been effective in curing a case of virtiligo/leucoderma and further has been successful in treating hair loss too. I feel it would be one coincidence too many in the way the leucoderma cure and the hair loss cure were carried out using the same medicine. Another research by a European hair specialist and scientist duo names stress, vices, pollution and poor nutrition as four enemies of hair growth. This couldn’t be more nearer to the truth. All four causes named by them are symptomatic of immoral behavior, spiritual negligence and poor nutrition. Food alone is one foremost cause for diseases mentioned here. Food is today neatly packed, easily handled and cooked, and sold hygienically. But the seeds are bad (genetically changed) producing tasty but under-nutritious or falsely nutrition balanced foodstuff. The seeds are altered under laboratory conditions to cater more to business considerations than the ordinary palate. The biggest threat is the effort to industrially replicate the process of a tree or a plant in producing it’s fruits or vegetables – a most foolish effort. The sickly diseases mentioned here is a commentary on the socio-religious and socio-medical conditions available in the city as of now. Three years on in New Delhi even a short walk in the neighborhoods produce all the proofs required about the practical occurrence of these diseases. And through these years there is no sign of the diseases subsiding or abating and this shows that any medical treatment the patients may be getting is hardly making any difference. It is sad to know that falling standards of business ethics has created fear and intense insecurity in the lives of Delhites. Also because of this psychological anomaly caused by mistrust of god and trust in the opposing false elements people cannot trust other people causing straining of relations on the mental and emotional platform. This too results in behavioral damage to the mind and the society in New Delhi is a example today of mass psychological crisis. Statistical data also show that infertility too has risen to more than 50 percent in both males and females.
And for those who may not like to accept this line of explanation finding it a rather queer mixing of religious philosophy, spirituality and modern medicine, they still have to accept at least the fact that many Delhites’ lives have been badly disrupted by these diseases which in any case are affecting thousands of New Delhi residents. These diseases have become so commonplace and routine in New Delhi today that most people have become negligent and careless toward it; which is a rather strange posture taken in the face of an evident threat to a mass of people from disease. Behavioural illness is increasing as people refuse, or do not even have the mental capacity, to see good as good and bad as bad. I always had a great deal of respect for Delhites and never thought they could be fooled so cheaply. But that’s the way it is. In any case it cannot be denied that New Delhi is sick today – whatever the cause might be.
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IMPHAL, November 7: Former Chief Minister of Manipur RK Dorendro and former Union Minister Meijinglung Kamson along with ex-candidates of MSCP N Indrajit have today officially enrolled in BJP
BJP state president, Th. Chaoba speaking at toay’s function as former chief minster, RK Dorendro to his right, looks on. Photo – IFP
IMPHAL, November 7: Former Chief Minister of Manipur RK Dorendro and former Union Minister Meijinglung Kamson along with ex-candidates of MSCP N Indrajit have today officially enrolled in BJP Manipur Pradesh after being approved by the state President, Th Chaoba.
A simple reception ceremony was organised welcoming the veteran Politicians at the conference hall of BJP.
Speaking during the ceremony, Th Chaoba the joining of the three politicians including the two veteran politicians is very significant in strengthening the BJP state unit when the upcoming bye election is just 14 days left.
The BJP president said that he has full confident to win both the seats in Thongju and Thangmeiband Assembly constituencies.
Reacting to controversy surrounding the nomination papers filed by Bijoy Koijam (Thongju AC candidate), he further termed the episode as very unfortunate that a congress candidate, a party proclaimed to be above all, could not openly declare his educational qualification. The very act of the candidate is the clear indication how corrupt and dishonest the party (INC) is, continued Chaoba.
Substantiating his claim, he said that in previous election there have been instance of congress MLAs filing fake affidavits. In one case, a congressman, who is now the MLA of Moirang AC, in his nomination claimed himself as an MBA that he is not.
In response to claims made by demand Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam Gangmei, during the past few election rally on the territorial integrity of Manipur, Th Chaoba, held that Gaikhangam should not forget that he was among the 18 Naga political party leaders who signed a representation (in third place) submitted to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2005, endorsing and supporting the Naga integration for the so called “Nagalim”.
Meanwhile, Veteran politician RK Dorendro, giving his reason on joining the party said that it was to contribute his share of ideas in various issue confronting the state, a privilege that he claimed possible only with the BJP, even as he could not indulged in active politics.
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Yellow Journalism: Hindus killed Muslim Headmaster over calf stealing & Communal tension in Manipur By Dr. Malem Ningthouja Campaign for Peace & Democracy (Manipur) The brutal murder of a
Dead body of Hashmad Ali alias Babu (55) conspired and killed by Md. Matlib and his gang
Yellow Journalism: Hindus killed Muslim Headmaster over calf stealing & Communal tension in Manipur
By Dr. Malem Ningthouja
Campaign for Peace & Democracy (Manipur)
The brutal murder of a ‘Muslim’ headmaster Md. Hashmad Ali alias Babu (55) was confirmed in the wee hour, before the dawn of 2nd November, 2015. There was an initial distortion of the fact to cover up the crime and the criminals. Outside Manipur, there was a deliberate mapping of Manipur into the ongoing ‘communal intolerance’ prevalent in ‘mainland’ India. To cite two examples, the Hindustan Times, dated 4th November, 2015 carried a news under the title Headmaster Lynched for Stealing Cow; Shutdown Call in Manipur. The following day, the New York Times published a news under the title Indian Muslim, Accused of Stealing a Cow, is Beaten to Death by a Hindu Mob. These news depicted about an ‘antagonistic co-existence’ of communities or uneasily relation between majority Meeteis (Hindus) and minority Panggals (Muslims), as if marked by occasional clashes ever since a riot took place in 1993 and the emergence of Panggal based Islamic militant groups.
In these reports, the murder and the agitation for justice are being construed with communal overtones. These were being shown as continuity of community hatred and extension of the recent Hindu Muslim tensions centred on the ban on beef and protection of cow. The deliberate mapping of Manipur in the Hindu Muslim communal landscape and the enforced correlation of the murder with other ‘communalized events’ in India are illustrative. The Hindustan Times report incorporated a photo with the caption the murder of Muslim man in a UP village for allegedly eating beef had sparked national outrage. Similarly the New York Times incorporated a photo with the caption Kashmiri villagers shouted pro-freedom slogans last month while carrying the body of a Muslim driver attacked by far-right extremists angered by rumours of cow slaughter, an issue that stirs religious tensions in the Hindu-majority country. These news distorted the facts of agitation and conveyed manufactured news about an irate Muslim public helplessly fighting vis-à-vis the regime of the Hindu majority that have denied the former protection and justice. The blame was on the Meetei.
Many believe in these reports and some are confused. But most of the people on the ground who are involved in the agitation for justice are unaware of these distorted news. The leaders of the agitation are surprised, when informed about it. However, the misreporting had done the job. The ‘no-news’ have become a ‘news’ and the actual ‘news’ have been reduced into oblivion. The misinformation have achieved widespread publicity, continuously reverberated on uncensored social networks. In other words, the distortions of the facts and circumstances of the murder of 2nd November and the outburst for justice have covered up the nature of the crime and the criminals responsible for it. At the same time, the misinformation humiliates many, when everything was shown communal and the Meeteis are being objectified as Hindus hatching religious fundamentalism against minority Muslims. For instance, since I am a Meetei with some roles in academics and democratic activism, the ‘mainland’ progressive friends, who consumed the distorted news, are unhappy with me for being what they termed ‘a mute spectators’ when minority Muslims are being selectively targeted in Manipur. My teacher in South Africa, who has been a guide for more than a decade, have tagged me on a social network with a reasonable question; ‘I wonder what the local politics are here (Manipur)’.
One of the primary tasks to fight ‘communal intolerance’ is to fight distortions of facts and circumstances. The media has a big responsibility in it. However, when journalism is being misused by a vested section, it adds to the burden of the progressives to invest in labour and time to collate facts and undo the misinformation. Many are forced by the circumstances to involve in the struggle vis-à-vis the distortions, for better representation and information. Otherwise, the distortions, cited above, merely add to the communal propaganda of the chauvinist forces, whose agenda is to encourage hatred and bloodshed. In the context of the murder of Ali and denial of justice, information from the ground, provided by the relatives of the victim and other ‘Muslim’ friends, who are directly involved in the agitation for justice, can undo the distortions by the Hindustan Times and the New York Times. But, before placing the findings, there are at least three points that had to be briefly clarified. First, Meetei cannot be homogenously identified with Hindu or Hinduism. Two, the Muslims who have settled for centuries in Manipur are known as Meetei Panggal. They possess localized linguistic and cultural characters that mark them distinctively peculiar to non-Manipuri Muslims. Third, Meetei and Meetei Panggal are neither socially exclusive to one another nor they are compartmentalized into watertight antagonistic communal politics. To sum up, the anachronous depiction of these communities by the media needs to be reviewed.
To focus on the murder of 1st or 2nd November, it was plotted by Ali’s distant relative and immediate neighbour (a ‘Muslim’) to settle some personal grudges. In fact, Late Md. Hashmad Ali, a calm and respectable person in the locality, was the family head of a moderately well to do middle class background in a Panggal neighbourhood called Keirao Makting Awang Leikai, under Irilbung Police Station in Imphal East. He was the headmaster of an evening Keirao Primary Madrassa. His wife, Jamila, is the headmaster of the morning Keirao Litan Makhong Primary School, in the same locality. The eldest son, Riyas, owns a BPO outsource and lives with his family at Babupara in Greater Imphal. The next son, Malick, is the Managing Director in the BPO. The youngest son, Khaligue, is a computer operator and his wife works in a nursing institute.
On the unfortunate night of 1st November Ali was alone at the home. His wife, the youngest son and the daughter-in-law had gone out for some days to live with the relatives at Rahaman Hospital in Guwahati (Assam). Since Riyas lived at Babupara, Malick was taking care of Ali after his office hours. Usually, Malick worked in the night shift and returned home lately at around 10 p.m. That night, when Malick returned home, he could not find his father. He was worried as his father seldom went out at night. He searched, but, could not locate Ali. Being suspected he lodged a complaint of missing at the police station at around 2 a.m. At around 3 a.m., the police informed Malick about an abandoned dead body at a place called Kongba Uchekkon Thongkhong, which is located in Meetei neighbourhood area. In the morning, when Malick and others confirmed the ‘death’ of Ali, they were also being informed that Ali was caught while stealing a calf belonging to one Khumallambam Brojen, a Meetei, and that he was killed by a mob. When further enquiry had to be done, Brojen was found absconding and no one could belief the story.
Police took the calf into the custody and arrested Brojen at around the noon. Police interrogation revealed that Ali was killed by a group of ‘co-workers’ hired by Md. Matlib. It was unfolded that Ali was a distant relative of Matlib and they live together as adjacent neighbour. Their relation became strained because of land dispute. Some days ago there was an intensive altercation on this issue and Matlib had threatened to kill Ali. Since then, there has been a plot to kill. When Ali was alone at that particular night, Matlib hired three other ‘Muslim’ friends from the same locality and six Meetei co-workers from the Meetei neighbourhood known as the Kongba Makha Nandeibam Leikai. At around 8 p.m., Matlib sent two Meeteis to pick up Ali. They alarmed Ali that Malick had met with an accident on the way to home and that they were being sent there to drop him to the hospital. Ali believed in their story. When all of them met at the Nandeibam Leikai, they raised the alarm of cattle thief, fatally tortured Ali with iron rods, and abandoned the body on the road near a Meetei temple known as Lai Moriba Temple.
The news of the murder infuriated many. Nobody could buy the story of cattle thief by Ali, who is an economically sound and a respectable headmaster. The ‘Muslim’ neighbourhood immediately constituted a body christened as the Joint Action Committee against the Brutal Killing of Md. Hashmad Ali (JAC). The agenda of the JAC is to punish the culprits and compensate the victim family. When the fact and circumstances of the murder was socially revealed, the house of the prime accused Md Matlib was vandalised and finally burnt into ashes. However, all the accused other than Brojen were absconding. The JAC is disappointed with the police inaction. According to the JAC, “despite our best efforts to obtain justice of Mr. Hashmad Ali in a peaceful manner, no concrete steps have been taken by the authorities so far. The Irilbung Police Station where the FIR of the case is filed has not taken any step to investigate the case and arrest the culprits. .. This clearly points to complacency and connivance on the part of the authorities, including the Officer-in-Charge of Irilbing Police to the missing report filed by one of the sons of the deceased on the night of 1st November itself.’ Police are inactive, probably due to political pressure in favour of the ‘accused’ by the candidates who are contesting the Thongju Kendra bye-election to the Manipur State Assembly. On 5th November the JAC stormed the police station, which have led to repression and casualty of a dozen of agitators.
The rumour about cattle thief and mobbing, which were aimed at covering up the objective of murder and the crime, became redundant following the arrest of and revelation by Brojen. The accused are now socially known. However, the law enforcing agents are deviating from the prescribed course of delivering justice. On the other hand, if there was community mobbing, it was not when Ali was murdered by a hired gang. Mobbing occurred in the ‘Muslim’ locality when the house of the prime accused was burnt, which had badly affected other members of the family who might have not involved in the crime. Such tendency of mobbing as a form of vengeance and justice has become an undesirable trend in Manipur. Police irresponsiveness and inaction for justice have not only protected the criminals but also encouraged the aggrieved sections to take law into their hands. In all these, there is neither Hindu mobbing nor communal conflict. The JAC is seeking the support of peoples across communities and agitating for justice. It remains uncertain about the durability of the JAC and different tactical courses it may take, if those who are in power are deliberate to withhold justice. The media, particularly good reporting, can play a positively effective role in this.
Memorandum to Govt of Manipur by JAC against killing of Hashmad Ali
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Smuggling of python glands from Manipur to China on riseTimes of IndiaIMPHAL: Smuggling of python gall bladder from Manipur to South East Asian countries is on the rise, said NGO People for Animal (PFA). The gland is smuggled to China and other South E…
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Times of India IMPHAL: Smuggling of python gall bladder from Manipur to South East Asian countries is on the rise, said NGO People for Animal (PFA). The gland is smuggled to China and other South East Asian countries via Myanmar where it is used in traditional … |
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