PREPAK calls for unity on 40th foundation day

IMPHAL | Oct 9

The proscribed People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), on its 40th foundation has offered revolutionary salute to all the indigenous people of the hills and valley who have been living together as brothers, to all comrades of the party, member parties of CorCom and leaders of revolutionary organisations of WESEA.

A release signed by acting chairman, People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak, Kh. Sathy said when Kangleipak becomes an independent and sovereign country, she will be able to advance herself through all round development and stand as a distinct nation in the world.

PREPAK firmly believes that with self-determination and self-governance, we can make Kangleipak a prosperous and egalitarian nation, it said.  So in order to restore the lost independence of Kangleipak, and to bring self-rule, it’s the primary duty of every citizen to root out the colonial rule of India, it added.

To defeat India, we need to take the struggle for liberation to the international level, politically and make it known to the world community, and our brave revolutionaries should carry on the struggle with more dedication and sacrifice, it said.

Therefore, time has come for all our fellow countrymen to join the united struggle for liberation, it continued. To do this, we need to think of better ideas and strategies which are relevant with the modern times, it further said.

India has been trying not only to break into pieces the age-old boundary but has also been playing divisive games amongst the indigenous communities to divide them, it said adding as a result, mean and selfish thoughts have emerged amongst the Kanglei people who have lived together with love and brotherhood for 2000 years.  

This is itself India’s “divide and conquer “policy, it said. Since all means of survival had been removed, the close affinity and dependency on each other that used to prevail since the early times has also almost disappeared, brotherhood has been almost forgotten, and people have been forced to consider the outsiders as friends, it added.

The hostility and mistrust that emerged among the people of the hills and the valley, who have coexisted for thousands of years, had been created in a short span that is only after India forcibly annexed Kangleipak on 15 October of 1949, the release further said.

In this regard, it’s necessary for hills and valley people to sit together and thrash out the differences amicably, it said.  In issues such as ‘Separate State’ or ‘Alternative Arrangement’, ethnic identity, extent of participation in administration, resources, question of land ownership, etc will have to be discussed, it added

Causes of conflict amongst the communities, manner and proportion of participation in administration, mode and extent of using resources, ethnic identity and question of land ownership, etc are all creations of the Constitution of the colonial government, it said.

For this, our educated experts, intellects and civil society leaders need to have far-sighted visions beyond the Constitution of the colonial masters, it further said. PREPAK firmly believes that if these issues are discussed beyond the colonial Constitution, a situation and a solution could be found for all the communities to co-exist as before, it continued.

But as of now, all the communities are bound by the Constitution of colonial India that doesn’t suit the soil of the region; it said adding it will never be possible to bring a new social order, new political and economic system as long as we remain as colonized part of India. This is where restoration of independence of all the indigenous communities becomes the most important agenda in order to have a government as all Kanglei people desire, it added.

Education in our society has not been able to rise above the colonial level and has not been able to produce fit people who love their motherland, it continued. Nobody seems to be able to produce one’s own ideas, it said. The nation that once did not have to depend on others for survival has been reduced to the level of a beggar who can’t live without begging for everything, it added.