Imphal, April 14: Celebrating the 36th Foundation day of their Party, President of the rebel group Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) today wishes the people of the region. In a press statement signed by the President, the outfit recalls on how the party came into existence. It said the KCP was established on April 14, 1980 under the leadership of Ngangbam Babu Singh, a former member of Meitei State Committee (MSC) established in 1963 by Wangkheimayum Tomba, a follower of Hijam Irabot. In the statement the President greets people of the region and the revolutionary groups of WESEA on occasion of 36th Foundation Day of the KCP.
In his statement President of KCP, Laba said that the South East Asia region comprises of various communities. This various communities have now accumulated to build their own new nations. He said the rise of nations among these communities is the gift of the western colonial rulers. After the Western colonial ruler left the area and these areas follow the hangover structures and rules used by them to rule over the region. Among the new nations some are ethno nations and some are Social Nations but the foundation of both are not deeply rooted.
The President also narrated on how the British India was separated into three separate countries viz – India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in the year 1947 and 1971 respectively. The statement said that during the British ruled there was a movement anti colonial movement but after the British left and after the country has been divided into three the nationalism of each countries now is different. As an impact of the French Revolution 1789, the concept of Nations now is consider as a referendum taken every single day. That is way nation can be considered as the product of the conscience of the people of time to time.
He said the India government is engulfing the smaller community to strengthen the Nation building process. On the other hand in this age of globalization the south east Asian states are concentration different experiment to the building of new nation.
Recalling about the annexation of Manipur by India in 1949, the KCP president Laba said that besides the struggle to restore the lost freedom by implanting Nationalism among the countrymen it is also need of the hour that the people need to built new nationalism of WESEA region as it would be the only hope. That is why the concept of nationalism once followed during the Monarchy no longer remain relevant in today’s context.
The President further appealed to jointly fight against the enemy under the new nationalism concept under WESEA.
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