25/06/2026
The Failure of Governance and the Erosion of Fundamental Rights.
We witness the complete failure of both the Central Government and the State Government to fulfill their constitutional mandate, failing to deliver justice to the bona fide citizens of India while extending undue protection to Kuki terrorists.
Since the onset of the conflict, National Highway 202 has remained systematically blockaded by Kuki civilians, with neither the Central Government nor the State Government being able to restore free movement to this day.
One must therefore ask:
if the administration cannot restore free movement blocked by merely two Kuki villages, what does that reveal about the true exercise of State authority in Manipur?
This prolonged blockade constitutes a direct violation of Article 19(1)(d) of the Constitution of India, which guarantees every citizen the fundamental right to move freely throughout the territory of India. The lives of the people of Manipur, both Naga and Meitei, have been rendered uncertain. Countless innocent lives have been killed by Kuki terrorists, and the entire civilian of Manipur continues to live under a pervasive climate of fear and insecurity.
What is most alarming is the complete inversion of the constitutional order:
the fundamental rights guaranteed to bona fide citizens of India have been rendered void, while those protections are extended to Kuki terrorists. The escorting of Kuki terrorists by Central Forces under tight security at RIMS, Imphal City, stands as a glaring testament to this grave institutional contradiction.
When the Constitution of India has broken down in Manipur State, and governance has yielded ground to Kuki terrorist influence, the safety and security of its innocent citizens can no longer be guaranteed.
If the Government has failed to protect innocent civilians while extending the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution of India to Kuki terrorists, then one fundamental question demands an answer.
What is the solemn obligation of our elected political representatives at this critical juncture?
The positions of our political representatives were not earned by themselves. It is the people who placed them there. They hold no authority of their own, only that which has been entrusted to them. Therefore, they bear an inviolable and non-negotiable mandate to serve, protect, and uphold the interests of those who elevated them. To neglect that mandate is not merely a political failure to their own people. It is a deliberate betrayal of the sacred democratic trust and an unforgivable abdication of the very duty for which they were chosen to serve.
If the Government of India extends the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution of India to Kuki terrorists while failing to protect its own citizens, then why should we continue to participate in the Indian Constitution?
