A case of unwittingly empowering coercive agencies,like the NIA?

Amidst the chaos we are experiencing right at the moment,we must consciously pinch ourselves so as to make us remember that Manipur's destiny lies in the opening up of the Eastern Gate(Nongpok Thong).

I watched the GEO TV clip of the London affair.All I got was the work of a camera panning and capturing all the actors present in the room--it was panning from a distance.

Manipur's people definitely deserve a far better video clip of the event.

The camera should properly roll into the face of the lead actor.Then,it should catch the main acror speaking out directly and succinctly what the media have been hollering from the rooftop during the past few days.

Manipur's people deserve to hear the message straight from  the horse's mouth.

Then,one thing starts to annoy me greatly--did the London affair unwittingly empower the coercive agencies,like the NIA to selectively target the civil society organizations(CSOs) which are, right at the moment, working together to safeguard the territorial integrity of Manipur.

The Chief Minister had clearly spelled out during a press conference that the case regarding the London affair would be handed over to the NIA.He announced that an FIR had already been registered in the Imphal West Police Station(he even mentioned the FIR number).As per the FIR,the Crime Branch would be instructed to collect all relevant information of the Manipur-based actors during the next one or two weeks.

After that,the case would be handed over to the NIA,together with all the files containg those information.

The crucial point here is the position of the titular king of Manipur.

To my mind,the titular king would be put to use by the NIA to serve as the starting point to witch hunt selective CSOs of Manipur.

In the short term,the currently happening united agitation for safeguarding the integrity of Manipur on the aftermath of the final signing of the Indo-Naga peace talk would suffer as the NIA starts to selectively target a sizable number of them.

In the long term,the NIA is likely to position itself into an endless loop of short spurt of targeting the CSOs and comparatively longer period of resting.They are likely to let this loop to work at their own pace until enough pressure have been applied to a selective group of CSOs which would result in a permanent line dividing the CSOs right in the middle of their playing field.

And Mr Rahul Gandhi goes to Bangkok.

Right at the moment,Mr Rahul Gandhi is in Bangkok sojourn.

Most interestingly,Mr Rahul Gandhi's visit comes up just when the Chinese President,Mr Xi Jinping begins his India visit in Tamil Nadu and when the NSCN(IM) leaders crawled back to New Delhi for yet another crucial talk,where they publicly admitted that New Delhi this time had failed to honour the terms and spirit of the venerable Framework Agreement.

 India's body polity,manifested in its person of the opposition leader of its political playing field,Mr Rahul Gandhi points to something which is closely connected with Bangkok.Immediately,the Bangkok Declaration signed between the Govt of India and the NSCN(IM) comes to mind.The most important feature of the Bangkok Declaration is that phrase depicting the ceasefire agreement as being operational in a space having no "territorial limit".

That phrase has already settled into the body of Manipur's political discourse as defining the varied threat to the territorial integrity of Manipur.

Seen in the above context,Mr Rahul Gandhi's Bangkok visit is meant to send the political message to the Chinese President,Mr Xi Jinping that Manipur's territorial integrity is no longer sacrosanct.

Now,they are,in the personality of their opposition leader,Mr Rahul Gandhi,publicly states that the smashing of Manipur into several parts is the official agenda of the Indian State.

Then,the crucial question comes up--would they implement it like they had done in Jammu and Kashmir?

Not exactly.

To my mind,they are moving in a more subtle manner.

The deciding factor in New Delhi's pathway is likely to be the health of the constituent within the Manipuri society,whose face we had the chance to see when they came out in full force to effect an amendment to the Constitution of India back on 20th August 1981.(Last update of my last post).

In the last update of my last post,we have already seen that this constituent had already infiltrated the ranks and cadre of Manipur's underground movement.

It's now clear that this constituent has no intellectual capacity,by virtue of its time-warped existence inside the feudal box,to see beyond the symptoms.They are incapable of seeing that whatever is happening to Manipuri language(and its correponding script,(the Meetei Mayek) is the direct symptom of the health of the present day Manipuri society.If the Manipuri society is ailing,then the Manipuri language is also in bad health.Bracketing Manipuri Language to a particular clause of the Indian Constitution would not bring it to its health.If we continuously and relentlessly work to make our society super healthy,then the Manipuri language would also become vibrant and healthy.There is no other way.

Making a lot of noise around the symptoms is the worst case of leading the Manipuri society in a wrong and destructive direction.

Then,there is the recurring case of aping the state of Israel.They are saying that like the case of Judaism playing a crucial role in the emergence of Jewish nationhood (thus,in the formation of the state of Israel),we should also start all our struggle by first converting ourselves to Sanamahi religion.

We can readily admit that Judaism had played a crucial role in the emergence of Jewish nationhood (thus,in the formation of state of Israel).But religion(be it Hinduism,Snamahism or whatever) had no role in the emergence of the Meetei nationhood,by way of melting together of seven clans,namely,Ma-ngang ,Luwang,Khuman etc.

So,why aping Israel?The most plausible reason is that they have not the intellectual ability to go deeper inside the geo-pokitical complexity enveloping the present status of Meetei nationhood.They are fantasizing a way out of the complexity of Manipur's present day geo-political cross currents by buying the easily and off-the-shelve available model of the emergence of the state of Israel.

Whatever might be underlying forces,we have now in our hands the fatal recipe of religion,language and script.

The political thinkers in New Delhi are keenly aware of the emergence of this fatal recipe of the Manipuri society.They have already started nurturing the growth of this constituent within the Manipuri society.We now have a publicly available clue to the start of the ground breaking collaboration between New Delhi and this religio-linguistic constituent within the Manipuri society.

In the last update of my last post,we have already concluded that the young student,Ningthoujam Babysana of Thangmeiband was murdered in the course of brutal and chemically-induced lesbian rape.This chemically-induced murder of the young girl was cold-bloodedly planned and executed by this religio-lingusitic constituent.

In the aftermath of this sensational murder of Babysana we saw one crucial development in the emergence of a minor league rebel group within the varied and numerous rebel groups of Manipur which had thrown its prestige in line by publicly declaring that they were officially investigating the murder.In a series of press statements,they had even claimed to have gotten some real clues which would ultimately result in the unmasking of the murderers.In their last press statement,they declared that by virtue of the quality of the clues in their hands,they would close down the school where the murder took place.

It took only several weeks after this last press statement of the minor league rebel group for us to read in the newspapers that their chairman was arrested in,of all places,Bihar.The most plausible explanation is that the religio-linguistic constituent,now firmly infiltrated within the rank and file
of the underground movement,quitely asked around the whereabouts of the leaders of the particular minor league rebel group.Then,they gave the information to the military intelligence of the Indian army.

This collaboration between the religio-linguistic constituent and India's military has already started giving out a pattern.

The line depicting the pathway of this religio-linguistic constituent would ultimately intersect with that of what the Indian Constitution call the National Minority status segment.This segment is defined by its religion,nemaly,the Parsis by Zoroastrainism,the Sikhs by Sikhism,the Budhists by Budhism etc.

Now,New Delhi has started to nurture this religio-linguistic constituent with a objective of nudging it to make a noisy demand for bestowing the National Minority Status. In other words.the Indian state is nudging the religio-linguistic constituent withn the Manipuri society to stop murdering little girls and
,instead,to start prioritizing their energy in building up agitation for the amendment of the Constitution of India.Ah!The Indian State and the child murderers!!

Howsoever might we cherish to see the pinning down of the murderers and punishing them through a legitimate legal process then are they being scooped off the level playing field by the mighty power of the Indian state in all its multifaceted covert operations.We see no justice in sight.

As is wont of all covert operations,there sure will be an evil facet. we can foresee that the Indian State might,as a trade off of granting the National Minority status,force the relgio-linguistic constituent to settle for smaller geographical area.In the later stage of the negotiation the Indian state would openly come out that lesser geographical area tantamount to Union Territory status--they would get their National Minority status but only in the Union Territory realm.That would definitely complete a circle,in that,there are already strong demands for alternative administrative structures in the Northern and Southern mountain ranges surrounding Imphal valley.

That would entail smashing the present day Manipur into three Union Territories--Imphal valley,Northern Mountain ranges ans Southern ranges.But the crucial point here is that the Indian state would not publicly spell out this scheme of things--they would delegate this spelling out exercise to the religio-linguisticx consituent within the Manipuri society which they are likely to implement by way of noisy agitations for the National Minority status.

Now,we have three Union Territories out Manipur,two or three from Nagaland,four or five from Assam and one or two from Arunachal Pradesh.Nagalim of Muivah's dream might comprise of four or five of these Union Territories,loosely ruled by a  Constitutionally enacted pan-Naga body.

Of course,we have yet to discuss the likely reaction to the imminent agenda of the religio-linguistic constituent by the whole body of the Manipuri society.It would be naive for us to think that New Delhi would have no insurance policy for the expected upheaval coming out as the reaction of the whole body of the Manipuri society.

The most probable scenario is that the India's military might have a plan to inflict a crushing and debilitating military blows to the armed wings of the rebel groups of Manipur.The next step would be the lock-down of the Imphal valley--cutting off internet connectivity,physically blockading newsprint along the national highways,arresting several thousand CSO and Meira Paibi leaders etc

Wearing the mask of the rebels, the religio-linguistic constituent is lying low but working quitely from within the ranks and cadre of the rebel establishment and with collaboration with India's military intelligence to inflict the crushing blow to the rebel backbone.

Only after the completion of the military offensive and lock down of the Imphal valley would the religio-linguistic constituent come openly in accepting National Minority status and a smaller geographical area in the form of a Union Territory comprising whole of Imphal valley together with some portions of hill ranges surrounding the valley.

The above political and social setting would only come about after a series protracted military battles inside the Burmese jungle.In perusing world military history three things usually come up--chilly winter of Russia,dry hills of Afghanistan and the bewildering jungles of Burma.

Would the followers of ideology of Akhand Bharat have the ingenuity to prove the world history wrong?

Would they be resilient enough to win a protracted war inside the jungles of Burma?


THE LAST WORD

We should not fail to notice the looting of several hundred crores worth of jewellery in Chennai on a date which is only eight days away from the visit of the Chinese President on its outskirt.The two men were wearing masks depicting Manipur's "Kre kre mo mo....Tokpaga Kaambaga...."

That particular day did not witness the 'gross' negotiation like those of NSCN(IM) and the govt of India.Instead,there were those 'subtle'dancing to the beats that were so meaningfully(even,poetically)let out from the corridors of India's imperial power structures.

If New Delhi shows off who are really their friends by way of subtle slow dancing on that day,we would have a  'masked' revelation on the same day at the Southernmost point of the Indian Sub-continent--that was the way of that momentous day.

This 'masked' revelation has a huge geo-political meaning.

Two days later,Hong Kong decreed that face masks would be banned in its public places.

Another five days later,we witnessed the knee-jerked reaction of the ally of India--the West.Turkey was led inside Syria to begin military operations against the minority Kurds.