– Ramesh Sharma
Even after three weeks of violence, the social tension in Manipur has not subsided. There this violence is neither the first nor the last. As of now, the attackers have gone into hiding due to the presence of the armed forces. The situation seems to be under control but violent elements are active. After the reduction of the armed forces, they will again become active and engage in their violent campaign. The reason for this is that this violence is not a sudden incident of a mob turning violent, but a part of a conspiracy to drive away or convert the majority, which has been going on in Manipur for years. In the news of violence from Manipur which came through the media, it was said that this violence was a reaction to the support and opposition of reservation. This is what it seems in appearance. The reality of this violence is something else. Such violence has been going on in Manipur for years. Why only in Manipur, such violence is happening all over the country and more so in the border provinces. This violence is a part of the conspiracy of terrorism and transformation going on in different parts of India. Which is being done by anti-India elements by misleading Indians only. We can see such violence across the country.
If we review the violent incidents happening from Kashmir to Kerala, then the situation will automatically become clear. To count, the reasons for all are different and appear to be local, but families are targeted from all regions who describe themselves as conforming to or close to Hindu thought. This is also the aim of this violence in Manipur. There is so much similarity in all the violent incidents. Taking out processions, attacking the majority, damaging their religious places and forcing them to vacate the area. When there are attacks, some people run here and there to save their lives and some get transformed by compromising with the circumstances. This has happened in Kashmir and the same happened in Malabar in Kerala a hundred years ago. The difference is that the stream of transformation in Kashmir is different and that of Manipur.
While Pakistan is the center of violence, terrorism and transformation of terrified people in Kashmir, two forces are working to create an environment of violence, tension, disharmony and transformation in Manipur. The purpose of one is to create anarchy by spreading hatred and tension in the society. These violent elements hide in forests and mountainous areas. Their modus operandi is exactly the same as that of Naxalites in Chhattisgarh.
It is believed that the sources operating these violent elements are somewhere in the neighboring country China. So the purpose of the second power is to transform the society through fear or greed. When the time comes, these elements hide behind the missionaries. Their center is estimated somewhere in Myanmar. This power has transformed the Naga and Kuki society of Manipur in a way. People of both these societies have now been able to convert to Christianity. And they own about 90 percent of the land in Manipur. While the population of the Meitei society is forty percent, it has rights only on ten percent of the land.
Now the violent elements want to remove them from this land as well. There is no ideological similarity between the two forces which are in harmony with each other for violence and transformation in Manipur. Both are united in expanding their opinion by destabilizing India. Not only in Manipur, but in the whole of North East India, there is a tremendous combination of these two undercurrents. Meitei community is always on the target of both of them in Manipur. The Meitei society considers itself a part of the Sanatan Hindu tradition. That’s why this society is always the target. This time also the attack happened on the same person. The fresh violence, however, is believed to have started from May 3. When a mob gathered in a procession attacked the basti. But this violence started from 27th April.
Manipur Chief Minister N Virendra Singh was scheduled to visit Churachandpur on 28 April. He had to inaugurate an open gym during his visit. A day before this, on April 27, it was set on fire. The violent groups did not stop there. They activated the Manipur tribal groups and called for a 12-hour bandh on the day of the Chief Minister’s visit to Churachandpur. This call was followed by violent incidents in Imphal, Churachandpur and other surrounding areas. To control this, section 144 was imposed and internet service was suspended. But this caution had no effect on the preparation of the violent elements. His network was very strong. On May 3, preparations were made for a procession and thousands of people came to the streets, provocative speeches were made and violence started.
This violence is against the demand being made by the Meitei community to include themselves in the tribal list. This community is also a native of this place. There is evidence of hundreds of thousands of years. There is a systematic history of one thousand years before Christ. But the British, under their partition policy, had declared Kuka and Naga society living in forest and mountainous areas as tribals and missionaries became active for their transformation. Since the British had to take possession of the forest wealth of this area. That’s why he considered these two communities as the owner of the forest and mountain area and also gave them the right to settle in the valley area. While the Meitei community was not given the right to buy houses and land in the forest and hilly areas and settle down. That’s why this society is shrinking. And being forced is either going to other provinces or is getting transformed.
In the 1961 census, this society was more than sixty percent, which has now reduced to around forty percent. Worried about its shrinking existence, this society raised the demand to include itself in the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category only on the basis of its three thousand years old history. The case was also filed in the court. The All Tribal Students Union of Manipur (ATSUM) came forward to protest against this. This organization is behind the latest violence. The violence that took place in the first week of May is not a sudden outbreak of violence in the rally, but the preparations made in advance are visible. This violence reached Imphal from Torbang area of ​​Churachandpur via Kangpokpi. The death toll reached seventy. The number of those whose houses were attacked and driven out of the area is more than one and a half thousand. This figure is the one whom the security forces saved and provided security.
Apart from these, hundreds of people are yet to be counted who had fled their homes even before fear of violence. Some came to Assam and some fled here and there. Temples were targeted by violent mobs. Vishva Hindu Parishad has become active in the service of the victims. The Council has given the number of these damaged temples as forty. But the data of the state government regarding the temples has not come out yet. Yes, the figures of those who died and those rendered homeless have been released by the security forces only.
Due to the strictness of the security forces, the violence has stopped for the time being, but those elements will not stop, who want to create tension in India by spreading disharmony in the society on some pretext or the other. Want to expand your opinion. Even though the British left, the poisonous seeds of their conspiracies did not get destroyed. This violence took place in Manipur because of those poisonous seeds. It is the diplomatic law of the British and the concentration of missionaries that the population of the majority Meitei community of Manipur is gradually decreasing and their settlements are getting empty. This is exactly what happened in Kashmir. In Manipur the Kukis and Nagas are almost completely transformed and the Meitei community is under pressure. They either convert or clear the field. This is worrying. It is worrying for the entire Sanatan Samaj.
Since if there is a conspiracy to divide anyone in the whole country, then only on the Sanatan Hindu society. If there is mental pressure for conversion or to vacate the colony then it is only on the Sanatan Hindu society. This picture is not only of Manipur, such news also comes from Assam, Bengal, Kerala, Telangana, Jharkhand. The news of some special districts of North and Bihar also came in the media and those figures also cannot be ignored that in the 1951 census the population of Sanatan Hindus was more than 91 percent, which has now reduced to around 80 percent.
(The author is a senior journalist and columnist.)
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