The Congress leaders have decided to lodge a formal complaint with the Election Commission of India against the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) on the ground that it has been threatening the workers and candidates of many political parties. They said at a public meeting at Kakching in Thoubal district on Saturday that the NSCN(IM) which had signed a ceasefire with the Union government on June 25, 1997 is openly convassing votes for the candidate of the Naga People’s Front.
Addressing an election rally at Kakching on Saturday the Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh said that it is a known fact that the NSCN(IM) has been threatening the candidates and workers of other political parties to ensure that the NPF candidate wins the Lok Sabha election. It is a bad practice, he said.
He called upon the people to root out the political parties which are encouraging communalism and doing politics based on caste and religion. People should vote for the political parties which could preserve unity and integrity in this border state.
Deputy Chief Minister and Pradesh Congress Committee president Gaikhangam Gangmei said that it will be a difficult war to overcome the communal based political parties. He also disclosed that the Congress has finalised the complaint to be lodged with the Election Commission of India against the NSCN (IM) for threatening the candidates and workers to ensure that the NPF candidate is elected.
There have been abductions of politicians and vandalism in the BJP office in Ukhrul district.
Meanwhile the Manipur unit BJP president Chaoba Thounaojam said that if the BJP forms the next ministry at the centre, the party shall preserve the unity and integrity of Manipur. The missing boundary pillars will be replaced. The border fence will be constructed along the international border and not within Manipur’s territory. He also said that a sports university of the world class will be opened in Manipur regarded as the power house of sports in India. The BJP state president was speaking to reporters while releasing the manifesto of the party on Saturday in the party office in Imphal.
