ASUK urged the people to support the shutdown as an “essential duty” to save the future generations. Essential services, including religion and culture-related activities and medical services, will be exempted from the shutdown, it said.
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The proscribed Alliance for Socialist Unity, Kangleipak (ASUK) has announced a 12-hour “total shutdown” from 6 am to 6 pm on Republic Day of India, January 26. ASUK urged the people to support the shutdown as an “essential duty” to save the future generations. Essential services, including religion and culture-related activities and medical services, will be exempted from the shutdown, it said in a release on Friday.
The release said that the “revolutionary movement” of WESEA including Kangleipak (Manipur) is at its worst stage. More people believe that the reason for the downfall is India’s growing strength rather than pondering upon the various shortcomings of the “revolutionary organisations”, it added.
The proscribed outfit also argued that the shift of a “liberal democracy” to “fascism/ neo-fascism” is not a sign of the country gaining strength rather it’s a sign of its downfall. History has witnessed that in such a scenario, those who are in power cannot defend against “injustice” being done to its people, said ASUK.
ASUK alleged that although India was born with a garb of “peace and harmony”, it bore with it different issues including casteism, Brahmanism, sectarianism, racism, crony capitalism, nepotism, corruption, amongst others. And after the neo-liberal economic reforms of 1990, the country has been plagued with the “cancer” of corruption, it added.
Maintaining that corruption, power and muscle have been used by those in power to gain or stay in power, ASUK said that the media has been bridled, judiciary is dancing according to the music, the opposition has become non-existent, and the backbone of the CSOs have been broken. If not “actively”, it should be resisted “passively”, it added.