Maoist threaten to calls General strike on August 1

Imphal, July 22: Rebel group Maoist Communist Party Manipur has threaten to call general strike on August 1, demanding immediate apology from Director JNIMS. In a press statement the outfit said that a general strike against the misdeeds of the Director-JNIMS will be called on the 1st August,2016 if he does not tender public apology and confess to the Party.
The statement said that the people are fed up of general strikes and for that the party does not want to declare general strike in support of the people.
“So, whether general strike is to be launched or not is dependent on the Director’s willingness”, said the Maoist Communist Party statement.
The statement added that the Maoist Communist Party, Manipur has been endeavoring to bring progressive changes in the system of public health care with various means and measures. The corruption that has been practiced in RIMS(Regional Institution of Medical Sciences), doctors’ intentional zeal of practices of earning money in the private clinics inattentive to their post and place of service in the hospitals and alike practices have been minutely monitored and taken strategic measures by the Party strictly. Even the attack at the house of a relative of the then director of RIMS, Dr. Sekharjit regarding their involvement in corruption, as an attack against the authority of the hospital had been launched publicly. At present, in the case of the attack against the present medical superintendent of RIMS is stiil in ongoing positioning and readiness. Even, the Deputy-director of Manipur Health Department, Dr Shyamjai had been attacked with bomb at his own house at Khongman Basikhong. Thus our party has been monitoring and correcting health care departments strictly for the betterment health treatment and an improved progressivism of public health care for over the past three years. As a part of such steps, Dr. Laishram Diben, present Director-JNIMS had been attacked twice since the beginning of 2016 at his residence. It was not enacted by the party against him in person but as an attact against the Director of JNIMS. Such steps are not carried out or implied for personal hatred or monetary gain. The party hasn’t yet contact directly with the director in this regard. These are all only for an insistence and instruction to call for a better administration of the hospital and progressive health care policies. Unfortunately, in an effort to make JNIMS a better hospital, a lethode shell was thrown at the residence of the Director on the 4th January,2016 publicly as a warning, thereafter an article was published in a local daily with the heading “ Anomalies Suspected in JNIMS MS appointment”.
Meanwhile the party had been monitoring the department since January, the hospital became a crime scene. As a result the incident was deduced after a closer and continuous attention that the article held true. The local daily blamed that i) to appoint MS with unfair means ii) promotion of junior doctors through corruption skipping the senior doctors iii) appointment of a few Assistant Professors on the basis ad-hock illegally and iv) adoption of some daily wages staffs into Contract Basis etc. without proper procedures etc. The more astonishing and serious disclosures were not only these provided by the local daily but that the Director himself was promoted through corruption. For this reasons, the second bomb-attack was carried out as the last warning. Furthermore, the most unfortunate thing was that some sponsored CSOs hired by this Director was writing against the party in support of him without genuine monitoring – a dire and daring challenge to the Party. Such a thoughtless nature of powerful waywardness cannot but be taken as a intrusive challenge against the Party. The Party will have not forgiven the Director of JNIMS as on the ground of humanity to be. He is warned to apologize to the people in general and the Party for the wrongs committed by him within a week leaving his sponsored and hired CSOs behind of pretending to be true and good enough, otherwise the Party will take a firm decision and declare a general strike on the 1st August,2016. If the appeal is not obligated there will be no room for him to be considered and spared, the statement added.