Newmai News Network
Imphal | February 20
The NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region has banned all the candidates in the Tamenglong Assembly Constituency from contesting in the ensuing Manipur Legislative Assembly Election.
The Zeliangrong Region of the NSCN-K has said that it has decided to boycott the Assembly election in the Tamenglong A/C alone because the rival NSCN-IM has ruled the roost in the constituency by carrying out all sort of dictatorial activities. It urged all the voters not to turn out on Election Day.
The NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region while giving reasons for its latest move, has said that Independent candidate Khangthuanang Pammei was made to sign under duress with regard to its alleged apology done before the NSCN-IM kilo-kilonser. It added that the purported apology note of Khangthuanang appeared in the local newspapers issued by the NSCN-IM was nothing but apology note made by the NSCN-IM and forced the candidate in question to sign on it under the barrel of guns.
“Who is a Zeliangrong and who is not a Zeliangrong?” question the NSCN-K statement adding, “Is Samuel Jendai alone a Zeliangrong and not the rest of the candidates in the Tamenglong A/C?”.
The NSCN-K Zeliangrong Region questioned as to why the NSCN-IM and the UNC campaign only for Samuel Jendai. Adding that if at all to ban then ask all the candidates to withdraw from their candidatures but singling out a candidate to stop from the fray is not acceptable to the Zeliangrong people.
The NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region also ridiculed the commonly used term of “ blessing of the UNC or the NSCN-IM”.
It said that only God can bestow blessings and curses and no one else. “If the NSCN-(IM) and the UNC can give the blessings, point out the person in the NSCN-IM and the UNC and we will not hesitate to go and start worshipping right away”, said the statement.
The statement of the Khaplang faction of the NSCN, Zeliangrong Region also accused Samuel Jendai, a consensus candidate of the UNC of bribing the NSCN-IM and the UNC leaders with lakhs of rupees.
Further lambasting the rival faction, the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region alleged that several NSCN-IM kilonsers and its military leaders are now camping in the Tamei Assembly Constituency intimidating and threatening the public under the barrels of AK-47s to vote only for N. Awangbow.
The NSCN-K also said that the govt. of India and the NSCN-IM are now openly working together “which is why the Indian security forces failed to do anything even as the NSCN-IM cadres are carrying out unlawful activities right under the nose of the Indian security forces”.
The NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region further alleged that the govt. of India has been supplying rejected bullets to its security forces if the latter is to be posted in the area where NSCN-IM cadres operate.
“Seeing all these pretentious activities of the NSCN-IM and the security forces, we do not want the activities of any Indian agency in the Zeliangrong Region and we want to live as before where the Zeliangrong community lived happily with extreme cordiality among the community”, said the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region. Adding that “We do not want MLAs, MPs or DCs in our land, we just want to live as Zeliangrong people”
