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Peace And Development Cycle In Manipur
By Asem Ibotombi Singh
Peace and development are not separate entities to pick and choose and discuss separately - which one to be the first, and other the second as an act of prioritization. They are both complementary and supplementary to each other like day and night, heat and cold, laughing and crying, happiness and sorrow, etc. Peace is an ever-lasting law of nature. These cries and disturbances are .just like clouds in sunshine. The moment the cloud goes out sunshine is visible as it never stops to exist. We cannot say, peace should be there and development would take place during the period only. This cannot be our command. Only thing that is done and should be done is ‘to make hay while the sun shines’. Nevertheless to avail peace development should take place in the society. The earth quakes in Japan, the quake stops and development starts. There is a stopping time in nature, but it is non-stop in human nature - arrogant, obstinate and adamant. There should be some moments of stoppage. When Manorama was mysteriously killed by the Assam Rifles there was peoples’ uprising. The miscreants were not punished. Justice delayed. The culprits should have been punished immediately if the Government were really interested in development. Three months have passed. It is still lying probably as a prestige issue. But, see the other side of the sun. The people know that she was picked up late in the night from her house without any woman constable. She was found dead at a foot-hill with lacerations in private parts (the intention) by bullets; the petticoat of the victim was found stained with human semen, detected by a most credible Forensic Laboratory of Kolkata. It is encouraging Upendra Commission is speeding up the process these days. The movement it can identify the semen and punish him, then there will be a natural silence in the mind of the people and the Government can make hay while the sun shines. That is development. That is the dynamics of peace and development. How can humans, of whom the people of a country is made of, be able to forget and forgive so easily what is seen and heard. What is now apparent in the people’s behavior is hopelessness, hatred, listlessness due to mental depression and subdued emotion. Death knell is in the waiting list. Let us not go further than this. A youth was killed at Sagolband by a band of security guards of one lady police officer. The young man was unarmed. He could have been surrounded by the ‘trained’ guards, picked up and put in the lock-up. The proper action could follow as per the rule of law. If killing of an unarmed youth in broad-day light before the eyes of the passers-by is that easy, why the Chief Minister, is babbling on peace as if somebody has borrowed it, not repaid and he is unable to ‘develop’ the country side. Why doesn’t he suspend the police officer and his party immediately to show an example that things are not that easy to kill an unarmed man by armed police. (Other legal procedures can follow its course.) Immediately the overcast cloud in the mind of the people would be cleared. Then the Government may ‘make the hay while sun shines’. That is development. That is peace. There can’t be an overdose of peace than this in the present churning situation. Step by step. Is it not! The wearer knows where the shoe pinches. Please come and see the present scenario of the eviction - properties of the people "bull-dozed", recently at Canchipur and Palace Gate area. The purpose is quite clear and clean - the conversion of M.U. into Central University at Canchipur, and construction of State Cultural Complex at Palace Gate, both in the public interest. People, at large, like it. But what would be the condition of those who are deprived of and homeless. The convulsive effort of the Govt. is not that much palatable to the people. To me what is done is done. I am on the side of the Govt. But the matter can’t stop here. The unsatisfied people i.e. the afflicted people should not be left open undressed for long. Their loss should be immediately compensated so that the person concerned can have a good beginning and settled a new life better than that it has been so long in his old place. There should not be any amount of slip-slap in the total process because they are disturbed physically and mentally. Any slackness in the process may delay materialization of the will of the Government. These things should be settled completely before the visit of the Prime Minister. Leaving Manorama’s case hanging around arrogantly means the Prime Minister will have an extra load of memorandum; leaving the evicted families unsettled means another memorandum to ‘His Highness’ if at all he has time to visit Manipur; leaving Surana Motors case unheard means another unpalatable noise in the ears of the Prime Minister. If more chance is given by a void of delayed justice, these people would raise hue and cry. I am afraid, Manipur failed too many times to display welcome hands befitting the VIPs in the past. This time, things should be all right in the visit of the Prime Minister to Manipur. The Govt. may not be that fussy about peace; it is just a sublimate of all the previous socio-political inputs loaded in the past. In the last by-election at Konthoujam, there was more than 80% voters turn-up, similar was the case in the last M.P. Election. This hardly happens in other parts of India, which claim themselves to be peaceful. What a better democratic Indian state do we ask for in order to secure peace and development? Make hay while the sun shines. That is peace, which is development. The cycle goes on.
(Courtesy: The Sangai Express)

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