None should attempt to gain star status over night. Because not all people are born to be big. The just concluded Manipur bandh has left a big question mark. Are we prepared to respect our leaders? It is true Manipuris by nature are not personality worshippers. That had been proved by the manner with which the bandh was organised in a haphazard manner. Top leaders of Film Forum and Shumang Leela council declared bandh had been suspended keeping in view the greatest festival of Christians, which fell on December 25. But a breakaway group declared the bandh would continue. Then all of sudden the JAC was abolished. The greatest weapon of democracy, which is used to express grievances of the masses was reduced to plaything in Manipur. It is a shame. We have a lot of lesson to learn from this bandh. Unless you are mentally prepared to be together with the leaders of your organisation you are better off to keep away yourself from the organisation. For at the end you will become a liability. You must immediately eschew the path and look for other ways. Without knowing what was in store for them they challenged the authority. If you are in an organisation you must know the culture and principles of the organisation without being told. The breakaway group was exposed. They too could not get anything. We must know some are born to be workers and some others as leaders. One cannot attempt to shoot higher by challenging the leaders. That happens in filmy world only. But if you are destined to be a big man surely you will think big. And if you think big all that happened would not have happened. Misunderstanding between man and man reduced the well organised bandh to a farce. So many people landed in trouble as they set out assuming that the bandh hour was over. Buses had the wind shields shattered and too many two wheelers and three wheelers were damaged. The anger was directed among ourselves. The message that the bandh wanted to send moved towards the wrong direction. It was a colossal loss. In future before we launch bandh or other forms of agitation to demand redressal of the grievances of the people we must think whether the masses would hear our voice. Even the father of the nation Mahtma Gandhi had trouble time controlling his supporters to come to his term. He even fasted to control his unruly supporters. Do we possess the charisma to carry the entire masses according to our whims? Like the headless demons the bandh volunteers carried out activities according to their whims. Manipur had in the past shown matured agitations. Manipur became full fledged state, got the place it deserved in the eighth schedule. These were the fall out of the matured agitation launched by Manipuris. Then AFSPA was lifted and AR shifted from Kangla. These are not mean achievement. The agitations launched by the people of the state to get all those demands in keeping with democratic principles reflected proper use of democratic rights. That was not to be seen in the just concluded agitation. A sad phase had passed away.
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