IMPHAL, Sept 23 MNS\/NNN: The Manipur People\u2019s Party today slammed the O Ibobi led Congress Government accusing it of taking Rs 5,08 lakh from the Centre in a deceitful manner to use in the upcoming 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
\nMPP president N Sovakiran alleged that the Congress Government of Manipur has recently taken Rs 5, 08 lakh from the Centre on the pretext of giving compensations to the villagers of Manipur\u2019s Chandel district affected by Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing.
\n\u201cBut, the ruling Government will use this money in contesting the next Lok Sabha elections,\u201d the MPP leader accused while addressing a joint meeting of non-Congress parties held at the Community Hall, Keishampat Lairembi here.
\nContesting election by selling state\u2019s border lands will invite hue and cry from the people and it is better that the Congress stop such a fraudulent move, he said.
\nThe meet once again called upon both the state and Central Governments for an immediate halt to the current erection of fencing on Indo-Myanmar border and to redress the border issue by October next month.
\nIt demanded that the new stilted fencing erected by Myanmar inside Haolenphai village in Manipur\u2019s Chandel district be dismantled immediately.
\nThe joint meeting was attended by leaders of MPP, Pangan Political Forum (PPF), Manipur state units of BJP, JD-U, NCP, CPI, CPI-M, JD-S, All India Forward Block (AIFB), Naga People\u2019s Front (NPF), Naga People\u2019s Party (NPP), Trinamool Congress, Seva Sena and Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP).
\nNPF general secretary Athon Abonmei said the Congress Governments of both the Centre and state have not taken any concrete step to resolve the three-month-old border issue of the two neighbours, leaving the people in utter dismay and confusion.
\nHe alleged that the state Government is taking more serious on rice and kerosene than border lands and ridiculed the Food Security Act that the Congress Government is preparing to introduce in the state.
\nMI Khan, spokesman, PPF urged all the NGOs, other social organizations and political parties to visit New Delhi and gherao the Parliament over the border issue.
\nSaying that the Myanmar has not grabbed the border lands on Manipur side of Indo-Myanmar boundary, but these have been ceded by the state Government to the neighbour because of casualness, alleged Manipur BJP spokesman Y Nilamani.<\/p>\n\n