Home ministry declares Manipur based rebel wings unlawful organisations

Imphal (Manipur):The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday referring the People's Liberation Army and its political wing the Revolutionary People’s Front, the United National Liberation Front and its armed wing the Manipur People’s Army, the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak and its armed wing the Red Army, the Kagleipak Communist Party and its armed wing the Red Army, the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup, the Coordination Committee(CorCom) and the Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak as Meitei Extremist Organisation has declared them as unlawful organisation for five years under sub section 1 of section 3 of the UAPA 1967.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said, these extremist organisations have a professed aim to establish an independent nation by secession of Manipur from India through armed struggle and to incite indigenous people of Manipur for such secession.

The ministry further said that the Meitei Extremist Organisations have been engaging in activities prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India; employing and engaging in armed means to achieve aforesaid objectives; attacking and killing the security forces, the police and civilians in Manipur; indulging in acts of intimidation, extortion and looting of civilian population for collection of funds for their organisations, making contacts with sources abroad for influencing public opinion and for securing their assistance by ways of arms and training for the purpose of achieving their secessionist objective and maintaining camps in neighbouring countries for the purpose of sanctuaries, training and clandestine procurement of arms and ammunition.

It also said that the central government is of the opinion that the activities of the Meitei extremist organisation are considered detrimental to the sovereignty and integrity of India. And hence, it is important to take up immediate action to control the organisations to prevent them from taking the opportunity to mobilize their cadres for escalating their secessionist, subversive, terrorist and violent activities etc.