Celebrating Khongjom Day: a wasted matter if failed to fulfil the dreams of our martyrs

The people of the state today paid fitting tribute to the martyrs who had sacrifices their life fighting to safeguarding the freedom of the erstwhile kingdom at the battlefield of Khongjom in 1891. The courage and spirit of our ancestors is worth remembering and paying tribute to those martyrs is our pride to prove the world that we the Manipuri were courageous, hardworking people who had always wanted to live life with dignity. It is a known fact that, our ancestors of that time knows well that there was no possibility of winning the war against the huge army of the British Empire, but they still fought knowing that they will defeat in that war. Those ancestors like Paona Brajabashi, Bir Tikendrajit and other unknown soldiers of the erstwhile kingdom would certainly dream of a nation at which people from across the world have great respect.
Points wanted to make here is that, have we paid enough respect to our ancestors who had sacrificed for the cause of the nation’s freedom. The state of Manipur at present is in the most shameful state. The so called leaders of the present state and those who had been elected with thousands of hopes have been completely depending to the money sanction from the central government for running the state. A change in the government at the centre gives so much worried to the state government that the state ex-chequer went almost dried when there is less blessing from government at the centre. Lack of proper administration has always been a matter of reality that the present day people face. Prolong ban along the National Highways for various demands by civil organisations based at the Hill area, the VDF’s demand, inability to distribute the old age pension, swine flu, Bird flu are now shattering the real freedom of the people. At present, people are facing acute shortage of petrol and diesel which is an essential commodity of the people. The reason for the scarcity of petrol in the state is due to inability of the present government to look into the matter with sincerity. People faced drought in non-rainy season and flood during rainy season. The drainage system constructed in and around Imphal city by spending huge amount of many do not serve its purpose. And every one of us knows that these moneys meant for construction of the public properties are hijacked by people who are near and dear ones of the Okram Ibobi Singh government.
This situation is not what our ancestors had wanted. They might now feel shame of what we are no. A simple offering of floral tribute is really not enough to pay respect to our ancestors, we need to build a strong state if we really wanted a fitting tribute to our leaders.