BJP wants to overthrow Congress and bring peace in the State: Rijiju

IMPHAL, May 18: The BJP wants to overthrow the Congress government in the State and bring peace, harmony and development, asserted Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju today.

IMPHAL, May 18: The BJP wants to overthrow the Congress government in the State and bring peace, harmony and development, asserted Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju today.

Addressing an election campaign for the BJP at Chandel today, the MoS said as long as there is Congress rule in the State, the people will continue to suffer pain and agony.

He said, his ministry receives reports of bandhs, blockades, dharna, etc in the State every day.

This is a clear indication of lack of good governance in the State, he asserted.

The Congress party has damaged Manipur and it will take several years to get back, he said appealing to the people not to give another chance to Congress.

He said the people should overthrow Congress and bring BJP to power for which it is important for the BJP to do well in the upcoming Autonomous District Council Election.

Although the government is there is protect and take care of the society and its people, the present Congress government has totally failed to fulfill the expectations of the public, he said.

Rijiju said Manipur is a beautiful State with a vast pool of resources. Its people have the potential to excel in many fields, however, the government has failed miserably in tapping all this resources and potential of the people, he said.

Road connectivity in the State is in a deplorable condition, he said adding that people are facing difficulties in their movement.

In such a scenario, the people in the remote areas and the hills especially must be facing many problems, he said.

Now is the time to teach the Congress government a lesson, he said appealing to the people to support the BJP in the ADC election.

`Our motto is not only to be in the government, our motto is to serve the people,` he stated before assuring that all possible steps will be taken up to develop the entire North East.

At the same time, he appealed to armed outfits operating in the State to return to normalcy.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/05/bjp-wants-to-overthrow-congress-and-bring-peace-in-the-state-rijiju/

HC orders State to provide space for peaceful agitations

IMPHAL, May 18: A double bench of the High Court of Manipur comprising of Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatra and Justice N Kotishwar has directed the Manipur government to allot a space

IMPHAL, May 18: A double bench of the High Court of Manipur comprising of Justice Laxmikanta Mohapatra and Justice N Kotishwar has directed the Manipur government to allot a space in Greater Imphal area for people to assemble and hold peaceful protests.

The order has to be complied within three weeks from today.

The order came after a petition was filed to the High Court of Manipur by a member of Aam Aadmi Party, Digen Singh last year.

The petition was moved in court as the State government did not comply to the order of the then Governor of Manipur , VK Duggal to provide a space near the southern portion of Sahid Minar near Pologround or somewhere in Imphal, to enable the public for sit in protest, dharna, public speech etc. The order number GSM/Gen-8/2008 (Pt VII) was referred to the chief secretary on May 16 of last year.

According to the memorandum submitted by Digen Singh , the public has the right to assemble peacefully without arms and under the Constitution of India the right to freedom of expression.

It said in Manipur there are frequent agitations, and picketing occurs in front of the CM`™s bungalow, Governor`™s residence and other major crowded streets. During such times, unwanted incidents happen as tussle between the security forces and agitators constantly occur, violence is a fallout of such situations.

The need is there to tackle such scenarios and provide a common space for people to express themselves and protest peacefully, it said.

`As we are providing space for parks, gardens, playgrounds etc. we may provide a small space in the heart of Imphal in order to allow ventilation of thoughts and ideas of common people, intellectuals etc. So, the government of Manipur may kindly consider to provide a space for any meeting of public speech, protests etc. to avail fundamental rights under the constitution with reasonable restrictions,`™ it said.

The memorandum also cites that Delhi has Jantar Mantar, where citizens are allowed to gather peacefully and express their opinions.

The memorandum was reciprocated by the Governor, and forwarded to the chief secretary of Manipur.

However, despite the directive of the Governor, was not acknowledged by the State government. The AAP member Digen Sigh then petitioned to the High Court of Manipur as why the order has not been complied with.

The order was given today by the division bench that the space should be allocated within three weeks by the State Government.

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KSO SH burns copies of TSE at Kangpokpi, warns to unsubscribe

KANGPOKPI, May 18: Enforcing the ban imposed on Imphal based leading newspaper The Sangai Express and ISTV News Channel by Kuki Students`™ Organization GHQ the student body in Sadar Hills

KANGPOKPI, May 18: Enforcing the ban imposed on Imphal based leading newspaper The Sangai Express and ISTV News Channel by Kuki Students`™ Organization GHQ the student body in Sadar Hills burnt down all the copies of The Sangai Express mean for distributing at Kangpokpi in full public view at around 7:30 am this morning.

Some volunteers of KSO Sadar Hills took all The Sangai Express copies from Zalaileng News Service Centre, Kangpokpi and burnt down in front of the news centre in full public view.

KSO Sadar Hills president Thangminlen Kipgen said that the KSO GHQ decision to ban the newspaper and the local television news channel is justifiable and accepted by all tribal people in hill district while adding that the people have been very much aware of the unethical journalism by the two media house and favoritism in reporting performance with respect to the Haorang Kairel killing incident and Thingsat killings.

He also said that ISTV News Channel will be closed from today in the town and cautioned the people not to subscribe the said printed and electronic media in the interest of the ethical journalism in the state.

Thangminlen Kipgen also warned that every morning volunteers will check every bus and vehicles transporting the ban newspaper in town and if anyone found violating the diktak suitable action will be taken accordingly while urging the bus association of Senapati district not to engage in transporting the said paper.

While appealing to all ISTV operator and subscribers in the town to disconnect the channel the student body president also warned to initiate proper action to those who violated it.

Meanwhile, The Sangai Express subscribers of Zalaileng News Service Centre, Kangpokpi asked the news hawkers to replace their subscription with another daily which makes a restless day for the News Centre staffs.

Source from Zalaileng News Service Centre, Kangpokpi said that there are more than 100 subscribers of The Sangai Express both English and Manipur Edition while adding that it is the largest subscribed and circulated daily in the town.

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Pressure politics at Sadar Hills ADC elections, BJP candidate cries foul

IMPHAL, May 18: Strong interference are meted out from underground outfits and pressurizing candidates of the upcoming ADC elections to either back away from contesting and to support their sponsored

IMPHAL, May 18: Strong interference are meted out from underground outfits and pressurizing candidates of the upcoming ADC elections to either back away from contesting and to support their sponsored candidate.

The situation is prevalent in many ADC segments of the Sadar Hills jurisdiction, the political manipulation is mostly perpetrated by underground outfits who are presently in suspension of operations with the State and Central government. This was the main point of contention raised by many village elders, village chiefs of Purum Likli which comes under Mapao ADC segment of Sadar Hills. A flag hoisting function of BJP candidate of the said segment, namely Kaikam Kom today was held today at Purum Likli. Speaking at the occasion, President of the Komrem Union, Serto Kom said that the Union condemns the harassment meted out by the organizations to the candidates who are not sponsored by them. `We condemn the harassment and the forced politics favoritism in this area,` he added that elections should be free and fair.

Further adding to the charges, the BJP candidate Kaikam Kom lamented that the public of the area has not been able to exercise their voting rights. They are either intimidated by certain unlawful organizations to vote for their sponsored candidate and for other candidates to back away from contesting. `There is no peace during election time, politics are forced on the public, our democratic rights have been violated,`Kaikum said.

He mentioned that during the last election, he wanted to contest but was made to drop from campaigning as certain highly influential individuals had pressured him to do so. `We should not bow in to intimidation, I have been threatened this time also but I am not afraid. In the interest of the NGOs, I left the election last time as the candidate would win uncontested. This time, the public is behind me,` Kaikam added that no organizations are backing him but only the pressure of the public encourages him to stand for elections this time. `Unlike last time, there will be no `selection`™ and the choice of the people should be respected.` he said.

He highlighted that the elected ADCs are riding in swanky vehicles and questioned where the money for such luxury is coming from: an ADC member is given Rs 10,000 as salary for a month. `Are they public representatives or someone else`™s, let us not give in to the pressure and it is time that the public no longer remain afraid to exercise their democratic right.` he said.

It was learnt that an underground organization had threatened the candidate recently and asked him to bring an amount of Rs 10,000 to their designated camp.

The ceremony was attended by former minister C Doungel, BJP Yuva Morcha vice president; Ramthar Zimik, BJP president of Sadar Hills; Thangkholen Kipgen, Chairman of election committee; Campminthang and Emerson Bapui; Pastor of Purum Likli among other dignitaries.

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Ordinary meets Extraordinary

Extraordinary times these are that Manipur is living in. But its tragedy is, these extraordinary times are being met by a general ordinariness of mindset all around. A mindset characterized

Extraordinary times these are that Manipur is living in. But its tragedy is, these extraordinary times are being met by a general ordinariness of mindset all around. A mindset characterized by inward looking selfishness and obsessive narcissism. Almost by compulsion of circumstance, few if any are able to see, or are bothered to see, beyond the self and visualise the broader picture of what the future may shape up to be for everybody. An acute myopia has been forced on everybody, rulers and subjects alike, and life in Manipur has ceased to be about living but increasingly about surviving. Everybody is unto himself, and in such a circumstance, the obsessive self absorption which has become the general rule is understandable. After all, when the individual is left to fend for himself in a free for all situation, the principle of survival of the fittest would become the norm. An insatiable appetite for power and wealth, ill-gotten most of the time, is only one important consequence of this. What becomes abandoned in the process is the broad liberal ideology that liberalism is also very much about everybody giving up a little liberty so that everybody can have liberty together. Also ignored is the understanding that acute and widespread self-interest at the cost losing sight of the larger common good as it were, is not in anybody`™s self interest in the ultimate analysis.

There is another danger of ordinariness of leadership. It can have extremely grave consequences for everybody`™s future. This hypothesis cannot have a better illustration than in a particular counterfactual study done on the fortune of France and the French Army in the mid 19th Century which historians agree was the finest in terms of organisation and military hardware at the time. This army was at its peak at the time of the rise of an aggressive Prussia under Bismarck known all along for his imperial designs. James Chace, professor of international relations at Bard College, USA, writes in `What If?` a volume of counterfactual studies by military historians dubbed as some of the finest minds in the contemporary Western world, that given a wee bit more commitment, the French marshal Francois Achille Bazaine should not have had to surrender to the Prussians at Metz on September 1, 1870 along with 6000 officers and 173,000 men, as the French Army was far superior. Unfortunately the French leadership at the time was marked by a remarkable ordinariness. He laments that “¦ an inept, posturing nephew (Napoleon III) of the greatest military commander in modern times (Napoleon) became the unwitting destroyer of the primacy of Europe.` Had Bismarck been denied the runaway victory at Metz, there is unlikely to have been the First World War, consequently no Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which in turn led to the Second World War. There would also not have been the Bolshevik Revolution, no Soviet Union, therefore no Cold War either. The course of history for the next 150 years that followed, and horrors of the last century would have been irrevocably changed. If Europe was not thus destroyed, economically and in terms of human resources, the continent would have remained unmatched in economic prowess. But hundreds upon thousands of its finest minds presumably would have been amongst the millions of casualties of these wars, and for the good or the bad, the American Century too would have been delayed or perhaps even still born, he says.

The moot point is, what our leaders do or don`™t do today, will definitely have a profound bearing on the future of the place, if history is any evidence. The least that extraordinary times need is leadership inertia. When Manipur`™s being, physical and metaphorical, is eroding in a total administrative vacuum, it is outrageous that our leaders still have the leisure not to think proactively to meet the challenges, and instead continue to leave it up to the mythical healing power of time to mend things. Poverty, unemployment, bad law and order, sliding incomes etc, on the one hand, and piling garbage, run down roadways, drinking water shortage, sinking rural health facilities, decaying education system etc on the other, cannot afford to be met with fading government presence. Bribe givers and bribe takers alike, when the ship sinks as it definitely would if things to not change for the better, everybody will drown, and no amount of wealth in anybody`™s hand can save anybody.

Leader Writer: Pradip Phanjoubam

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Manipur clinch overall team runners up title – The Sangai Express

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Youth killed in police firing in Manipur – Nagaland Post


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Rijiju joins Manipur ADC poll campaign – Assam Tribune


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Rijiju joins Manipur ADC poll campaign
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JAC imposes Imp-Ukl road block against death of student in alleged police firing

IMPHAL May 18: A JAC formed against the killing of a 17-year-old student in an alleged police firing yesterday has imposed an indefinite bandh along the Imphal-Ukhrul road from today

Locals imposing a bandh to protest against the Police firing

Locals imposing a bandh to protest against the Police firing

IMPHAL May 18: A JAC formed against the killing of a 17-year-old student in an alleged police firing yesterday has imposed an indefinite bandh along the Imphal-Ukhrul road from today demanding termination of all police commandos involved in incident.

The boy has been identified as Konsam Kourounganba, son of K Rajen of Khurai Konsam Leikai.

Korounganba was travelling in a car with some friends yesterday evening along the Imphal Ukhrul road, when they were stopped by a police team on frisking duty, however, they sped away without stopping resulting in a high voltage police chase.

One of the occupants of the car who is getting treated at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences has been identified as Konthoujam Vivek, 17 son of Konthoujam Kumar of Konthoujam Mamang Leikai, under Imphal West district.

Speaking to this reporter at the hospital, Vivek said that he and Kourounganba were both sitting in the back seat of the Chevrolet car.

Konthoujam Vivek narrated, `We were returning from Chingnungkhok and were stopped by the police for frisking at Lamlai around 6 pm yesterday.`

`We have had some liquor so we did not stop the vehicle out of fear. Then the police chased us to Sawombung, Sagolmang, Pangei, Waiton, Tejpur and beyond Sajiwa jail`, he said.

We were intercepted by another commando team while we were slowing down for turning at a road obstruction at Kangla Sangomsang area, which is along the Imphal-Ukhrul road near Sajiwa Jail, he added.

Then all of a sudden they shot at us, hitting Korounganba on his hips, he said.

According to Vivek, he was also hit on his neck by a debris from the car`™s body scrapped off by the bullets.

Korounganba was rushed to Shija Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around 1am today.

Two of their friends are in the custody of the Lamlai Police Station.

Meanwhile, the JAC has also demanded that all the involved commandos should arrested under IPC 302 for the alleged murder.

The JAC has further demanded the release of the other innocent students in custody without any condition.

At the same time, the All Manipur Students Union, AMSU also denounced the incident resulting in the death of the student of NG Mani College in the strongest terms during a press meet held in their office premises today.

The general secretary of the student body, Manjit Sarangthem questioned the legitimacy of killing a young student without any respect of right to life.

`In the guise of AFSPA, we have lost so many innocent lives at the hands of the state forces.` he alleged.

`The police should introspect why people fearfully ran away from their sight instead of feeling secure in their presence` he said lamenting about citizens`™ plight being cornered by both the militants and the military including police. `It is unfortunate that even students are not spared by the men in uniform/police commando`, he added.

During the media briefing the student body appealed to all the educational institutions for participating in the mass sit in protest tomorrow. `We will support the decisions of the JAC until the involved personnel are brought to justice`, Manjit Sarangthem stated before adding that it is high time the culture of extra judicial killing should be stopped by the security forces operating in the State.

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SI assaulted by escorting speaker of Manipur Rifles – Website (press release)


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SI assaulted by escorting speaker of Manipur Rifles
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You’d expect personnel belonging to the police, Manipur Rifles and the India Reserve Battalion would foster a rapport, coordinate among themselves and share information on anti-social elements/militants to ensure law and order is maintained. But the …


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SI assaulted by escorting speaker of Manipur Rifles
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Where have all the flowers gone? Festival asks in Manipur – Bihar Prabha

Where have all the flowers gone? Festival asks in Manipur
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The festival was organized by Akhu Chingangbam, a lead vocalist of Imphal Talkies and Manipur’s music community, Folksy Triumph with an aim to protect and spread awareness about the environment. Many young boys and girls also participated in a cycle …

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The festival was organized by Akhu Chingangbam, a lead vocalist of Imphal Talkies and Manipur's music community, Folksy Triumph with an aim to protect and spread awareness about the environment. Many young boys and girls also participated in a cycle …

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