Lamyanba Hijam Irabot and his revolutionary Path Hijam Irabot who was also known as Jana-neta by the Indian Comrades, Simanta Praharai by the Ahoms, Afoji by the Burmese comrades and Lamyanba by the present society of Manipur was born on 30th September 1896 in Manipur. He grew up from a poor family and studied at Johnston Higher secondary School and also at Pugoj High School Bangladesh but he dropped out due to the economic shortage at class nine. From the early stage of his life, he actively involved in various social activities. He influenced the second Nupi Lan (Women’s’ war) against the fascist policy which was broke out on 12th December 1939. Irabot was arrested on 9th January 1940 and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment on the charge of provocation of Nupi Lan. He was kept at Imphal jail for one year and shifted him at Sylhet jail (presently located at Bangladesh). He learned Marxism and Leninism from the comrade inmates in Sylhet jail. He was released from the Sylhet jail after completing the terms of imprisonment but he was not permitted to enter his own state Manipur. He stayed at Cachar and around and work among the peasants. He joins Kishan Sabha there and kept in touch with the Indian comrades. He attended the first congress of the Communist Party of India held at Bombay from 23rd May to 1st June 1943 as a special invitee from Cachar (Assam). He also attended various meeting of the All India Kishan Sabha. Again he was detained as a security prisoner in silchar district in 1944 and release on 1945 on the charge of being a communist member. After his release he was appointed as a General Secreatry of the Cachar district Kishan Sabha and President of the Surma Valley Kishan Sabha respectively. He contested in 1946 election to the Assam provincial Assembly from Silchar constituency as a CPI Candidate. Manipur State Council has lifted banning on Comrade Irabot to enter Manipur in March 1946. Then after he organized a new party called Manipur Praja Mandal in April 1946. Again he attended the second congress of the CPI held at Calcutta in 1948. It is important to mentioned That Manipur was not a part of India at that time so Comrade Hijam Irabot did not form any Indian Communist Party to the soil of Manipur. Comrade Irabot contested Manipur State Assembly election held on 1948 and won from Utlou Assembly constituency as a Krishak Sabha candidate. At the same time India again start a conspiracy to form a new state called Purbachal Pradesh comprising of Manipur, Tripura, Cachar and Lushai hills. Comrade Irabot called on a meeting all the progressive people on 21st September 1948 in protest against the formation of Purbachal Pradesh. The bloodshed incident took place at Pungdongbam village when the Manipur Police force to disperse the people who came to attend the meeting which claim a police officer was killed on the spot. The Manipur state Council declared the Manipur Praja Mandal and Manipur Krishak Sabha as unlawful. Actually the incident was intentionally framed by the fascist ruling class to suppres the peasant revolutionary democratic movement. The logic behind the conspiracy was to take over the Manipur state constitution without the representation of revolutionary mass. The Manipur state council had rejected the repeated request of Manipur Krishak Sabha to constitute an impartial enquiry committee to investigate the Pungdongbam incident reveal the exploitive character of the fascist ruling class. It is true that there is no provision of the civil rights of the Manipuri peoples in the Manipur state constitution 1947. This constitution was designed by Mr. Peerson in his own interest by appointing constitution making committee members of Valley and Hills representatives in an unofficial manner with a well planning to serve the imperialism. Manipur grew up as an integral part of the world proletarian revolution. The historical facts and the then present socio-political economic condition demands the formation of Manipur Communist Party instead of the formation of CPI Manipur State Committee. So Comrade Irabot took the correct political line and formed Manipur Communist Party on 29th October 1948 as an armed political party. He organized its arm group called Manipur Red Guard. He was death on 26th September 1951 at some part of the Burma due to his chronic disease. We find mainly two trends in international communist movement in this respect. The first trend that does not consider the arm struggle as an inevitable part of political struggle for power but one sidedly emphasizes on the political offensive or relegates preparation of peoples war in various pretexts is outright reformism and right revisionism. While the second one that emphasizes more on military offensive but ignores the political one or equates war with political represent Militarism. Right revisionism is the principle danger but militarism too has not harmed less in the political struggle for power in revolution. So after the death of Comrade Irabot, Ngangom Mahendra and Moirangthem Ibohal and their opportunist group took the line of right revisionism with the joining to the Communist Party Of India (CPI) by surrendering the wills of revolutionary mass and Comrade N.Binoy and his group took the line of militarism. So it will be wrong to define Manipuri Communist movement only from the nationalist point of view but also as a part of world proletarian revolution. The communist movement established in Manipur before its annexation into Indian imperialist union. We Salute to the Our Revolutionary Leader of Manipur- Lamyanba Hijam Irabot. Yawolna Yaiphare (Long Live Revolution)
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:11:24 +0000
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