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ASUK calls Total Shutdown on Republic Day

by Rinku Khumukcham
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Imphal, Jan 23:

The Alliance for Socialist Unity, Kangleipak calls for total shutdown on 26th January 2022. The total shutdown will begin from 6:00 am of 26th January till 6:00pm of the same day. Essential services and Medical emergencies are exempted from the shutdown, as per the press release sent out by ASUK.
The Press statement by the armed rebel group said , “ 26th January will be celebrated all over India including Manipur as the Republic Day of India. However, the day is the second Black day of Manipur, the first being October 15. The constitution of India had its effect from January 26, 1950 and based on it, Manipur which was an already independent state was forcefully merged into India on 1949. Manipur was given the status of a Part-C state which was below the status of a Union Territory. In August 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 was passed by the Indian Parliament and Article 370 was amended to disintegrate Jammu and Kashmir into two different Union Territories. This act was condemned at both National and International level. The way in which Manipur was merged into India as a Part-C state violates law and is more condemnable than what happened with Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. Every Manipuri and people from WESEA shouldn’t celebrate the day instead should lament the day.
With Manipur’s merger into India, the status of Manipur has degraded at a very great level. Once pure and beautiful art and culture of the state is now being used as means to appease the VIPs who come to Manipur, and traditional dance and other martial arts which was once a sacred thing is now being performed in roadside to welcome those VIPs. Kamatapur, Tripura and Manipur were annexed by the British in 1773, 1809 and 1826 respectively and only in 1949, these states were merged into India. It is very unfortunate that the people of WESEA region managed to remain quiet and content when leaders of this region mix the story of Shri Krishna of Mahabharata with the beautiful and time immemorial history of WESEA region on their speech in public platform, it added.
The ASUK’s statement appealed the people of the region to support the total shutdown called by ASUK and to remember that we are still under colonial rule.

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