The junta sponsored Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) in northern Burma has claimed it will definitely win the 2010 elections in Burma. This was declared by a senior leader, said local people.
Salang Rawang Jung, general secretary of Kachin State's USDA told ethnic Kachin Christian Church leaders in Machyangbaw, a beautiful city on the riverside of Mali Hka River in Putao District in Kachin State, northern Burma that "In the 2010 elections, political parties not affiliated to the junta could win seats but our party (USDA) is a strong and stable party. We will win and we will definitely win and form the government," said meeting participants.
Rawang Jung, a native of Putao officially told this to Church leaders and followers in Rawang Baptist Convention (RBC), Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) and Church of Christ (COC) in Machyangbaw city. They were invited to the meeting at Gubar Hall in Gubar guesthouse in the city on August 26 (Tuesday), according to Church sources in the city.
According to participants, the USDA meeting was attended by more than five Church leaders and local USDA members. Participants were promised Burmese traditional suits as gifts by Rawang Jung. But the attendants are yet to receive the promised gifts.
A day before his Machyangbaw trip, the USDA general secretary Rawang Jung first met over 50 leaders of Christian denominations in No. 1 Basic State High School in Kawng Kahtawng quarter in Putao city and gifted Burmese traditional suits to each participant.
On September 19, Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, who is born in Kachin State and the junta's Kachin State's organizer and Minister of Post, Communication and Telegraph, and Northern Command (Kachin State) commander Maj-Gen Soe Win met ethnic Kachin Christians in Nawngnang and Pa La Na villages in Myitkyina to garner support for the 2010 election.
Meanwhile, the junta-sponsored USDA members in Kachin State as well as members of the Kachin State Interim Committee (KSIC) formed by the three main biggest Kachin political organizations--- Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), New Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K) and Kachin National Consultative Assembly (KNCA) are steadily mobilizing people in the state for the 2010 general elections in keeping with the junta's seven-step roadmap to so-called disciplined democracy in the country.
Night curfew has been imposed in Kachin State's capital Myitkyina starting from 10 pm local time by a new Northern Command commander Maj-Gen Soe Win soon after underground Kachin students pasted anti-regime posters on September 18, the day of the 20th anniversary of the military coup in the country.
