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IMPHAL April 24: National spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party and also a Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Javadekar has today left no harsh words unsaid in describing the Congress led UPA government before referring the Manipur cabinet ministers as members of a new militant outfit.
Javedkar who is on a three day visit to the state arrived this afternoon and held a press conference at the main office of the BJP Manipur unit.
Addressing mediapersons at the press conference, the spokesperson stated that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been regarded as an economist and a clean politician earlier. However the PM has failed miserably to check inflation and the rampant corruption taking place in every nook and corner of the nation and has lost his reputation on both counts.
He also stated that even though the Prime Minister has repeatedly made the promise to curb price rise in the country during the last 24 months, the prices seem to be only going up instead of going down, which is a resounding failure on the part of the UPA government.
He voiced that Manipur is particularly affected by inflation evidently, as a litre of Kerosene costs at 100 Rupees. Inflation for the nation rose at 10 % and GDP at 9.5%, which shows that development, is eaten away by inflation.“ Of recent, the nation has witnessed the 2G ,CWG scams and many other ‘G’s’ may be happening, the PM is presiding the worst government the country has ever seen”, he said.
Also taking digs at the SPF government, Javedkar said that the rampant corruption which occurs in the state deserve recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the most corrupted state”, for which the scam of the primary teachers and police recruitment recently bears testimony.
He maintained that law and order in the state have broken down completely and also voiced his amazement that a cabinet minister shot the advocate general and the matter ended quietly. A minister’s son shot a person in cold blood, if this is the state of affairs then the militants may regard the cabinet ministers of O Ibobi as members of a new militant outfit operating under the title ‘The Cabinet’,. The BJP demands an inquiry and high level intervention into the incident, he said.
Further, Javedekar confidently announced that the congress will lose in the recently concluded Assam elections, hence marking their downfall in the North East political scenario. The BJP will contest all seats for the upcoming IMC elections to address the lack of power, drinking water, deplorable road conditions, ineffective PDS distribution etc in the state which also points out the overall collapse of the present government.
Conclusively, the MP decried the ambush on MLA Wungnaoshang by the NSCN (IM) and stated that the NIA should initiate an inquiry into the matter. The incident shows that NSCN (IM) ceasefire issue needs to be addressed and the matter will be taken up at Parliament in the upcoming monsoon session, he concluded. 

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IMPHAL, May 24: A big round of applause echoed the office of Khonthaang Delhi in cheering filmmaker Oinam Doren as his timeless documentary film titled Songs of Mashangva bagged Rajat Kamal plaque under the Best Ethnographic category at the 58th National Film Awards 2011.

Khonthang, a Delhi-based Manipuri art and cultural promotion group organised a grand event on May 22 in New Delhi to facilitate the filmmaker. Attended by a horde of (Manipuri) people from different walks of life, the occasion was marked with euphoric celebrations, filled with fun and fiestas stated an emailed statement of the organization.

`I`™m really happy to get such amicable greetings from Khonthaang Delhi. Their appreciations of my work certainly motivate me to move ahead for another moment of triumph in near future,` said Doren while receiving a memento from the group. He added that humble supports from the social organisations like Khonthaang Delhi would help the Manipuri film industry promote outside the state. Along with Songs of Mashangva, two other non-feature films from Manipur, viz. The Zeliangrongs, directed by Ronel Haobam; Heart to Heart, produced by Rotary Club of Imphal and directed by Bachaspatimayum Sanju were selected for the prestigious National Film Awards, added the statement.

Produced and directed by Oinam Doren, Songs of Mashangva is a perfect portrayal of Tangkhul Naga folk music, which had been buried unnoticed by the mass for a long period of time, forgotten in vain in the reign of Christian proselytisation across the region, and its return today as a Naga folk blues. `My protagonist Ruben Mashangva is the hero in the real sense, who has eventually revived the lost lustre of ethnic embellishments in Tangkhul Naga folk song,` remarked Doren adding that the musician should be accredited for the revolutionary change.

Khonthaang Delhi invited Doren for the felicitation programme during the filmmaker`™s stay in New Delhi on his way home after attending Almati International Film Festival in Kazakshtan. Songs of Mashangva is considerably one of the finest ever Manipuri documentary films which received critical acclaim at the international arena. `We encourage everyone involving into the enhancement of the region`™s art and culture,` asserted Elangbam Abung of Khonthaang Delhi. He further mentioned that the group admits an eternal gratitude to Oinam Doren and others for their priceless achievements it stated.

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From Our CorrespondentUKHRUL, May 25: The Students` Union of Pettigrew College (SUPC) Ukhrul has locked the Principal’s office today, in protest against the acute lack of basic infra-structures in the institution including power and water supply since the past eight nine months.
The general secretary of the union, MK Miya along with other representatives of the student while interacting with some media persons today at the college premise has demanded immediate change of the Principal who has failed to redress the grievances of the students even after the student union had approached for immediate action regarding the problems faced by the students of the college.
The student body has further charged that due to the limited time notification of the principal’s office regarding the submission of exam form and the imposition of late fines, some of the students were unable to appear in the exams.
It has charged that the official notification from the principal’s office came out on Novemeber 10, 2010 notifying that the submission of exam forms without late fine will start from November 13, 2010 and that submissions with late fine will start from November 17.
 The union further demanded the conduct of regular classes in the college and provision of all University Grant Commission (UGC) sponsored facilities with UGC Network Resource Centre-Computor and internet centre offering basic computer course, free remedial coaching for ST/OBC students, career guidance and counselling cell for the students, stipends @ Rs 500/- PM to selected regular ST/SC students of BPL which is done only once, coaching classes for entry in Services (competitive exams) for ST/SC/OBC/ Minority students and study tours every year- the central projects though available are not functional in the college, the union added.
Further maintaining on the lack of infrastructure in the college the union has maintained that there are no toilets and urinals available in the college, and that there is no proper fencing of the college.
The union further added that the union has also submitted a memorandum to the state education minister to redress the grievances of the college.
Further briefing the media persons, the union has stated that the college also lacked lecturers and further warned that the union will be left with no other option other than drastic form of agitations in case of the government failing to respond to the student body.

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