Beware of Government’s agents, caution student organisations

IMPHAL, Nov 1 : In case anyone commits the blunder of colluding with the State Government against the three months old people’s movement including the class boycott agitation, in the course of which there have been many casualties, sufferings and arrests, they would be taught befitting lessons, cautioned the AMSU, MSF and KSA.
However, guardians’ bodies, teachers’ associations, private individuals and other organisations organising any meeting to find out the root cause for students’ staying away from schools and any agitation they may launch towards enabling students attend class would be appreciated and supported, the three student bodies said in a joint statement.
Even after the July 23 Khwairamband killing has been proven to be a clear case of fake encounter with photographic evidence by Tehelka magazine, the State Government has not taken up any action commensurate to the crime till date.
Rather, the Government has been scheming to reduce the people’s movement by using both secret and open agents.
The Government has been making invitations for negotiation on one side while at the same time plotting to terminate the people’s movement using different organisations including student bodies who have allegedly thrown away their principles and also involved in different criminal activities.
The issue can be settled only when the Government start acting in line with wish and aspirations of the people, the student bodies iterated.
Though a round of talk was held with the State Government, the Government is still unable to give a definite assurance to fulfil the main demands of the people. As such, the ongoing class boycott movement would remain, they declared.
Any individual or group putting up obstacles or jeopardising the people’s movement would amount to putting their heads between grindstones, the student bodies warned.
The AMSU, MSF and KSA reiterated that they do not have any third ear to listen to appeals for lifting the class boycott until and unless the people’s goal is achieved.
Reacting to the call to make educational institutions a free zone, the student bodies asked the advocates of ‘free zone’ if they remembered their slogan only at the time when collective strength of the people should be mustered in the fight against the incumbent Government.
Noting that some agents of the Government including a students’ body are organising a public meeting at BOAT on November 2 in connection with the ongoing class boycott movement, the AMSU, MSF and KSA asserted that the movement being spearheaded by the Apunba Lup cannot be affected by whatever decision adopted in the meeting.
Questioning whether the ‘education free zone’ campaign did not cover GP Women’s College and Manipur University, the student bodies asked as to why GP Women’s College Principal Karam Manimohan was assaulted most brutally.
They further asserted that Karam Manimohan was hospitalised because of the assault by the particular students’ body and later succumbed to the injuries.
The student bodies went on to ask whether making educational institutions a free zone meant summoning teachers at their office and thrashing them.
It would be very unfortunate if those organisations decide to challenge the people’s movement openly instead of consulting and highlighting their opinions and views to the AMSU, MSF and KSA.
Calling upon guardians and teachers, who are deeply worried over the inability of students to attend class to introspect and tread in the right path towards bringing a justified solution to the issue, the student bodies appealed to the guardians and teachers to stay away from those taking side with the Government and plotting to nullify the people’s movement. They asserted that the Government has been using some student bodies to make the class boycott movement ineffective after it failed to do so by using police commandos. They further called upon all sections of the society to launch a renewed and forceful movement against the ruling leaders of the State to take the movement to its logical end.