IMPHAL, May 12NNN : The BJP, Manipur unit and the Trinamool Congress, Manipur unit have launched scathing attacks on the Congress led government of Manipur for all the ails in the state. The BJP has called Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh as the weakest Prime Minister ever India had after the Independence. The BJP said scams have ruled the day and the Prime Minister has failed to address it.
\nIn separate press conferences today, BJP, Manipur unit president Th. Chaoba said all the development works in the hill districts have been halted for a long time now while Trinamool Congress, Manipur unit president Kim Gangte asked as to where have all the funds meant for taking up development works in the hill districts have gone.
\nBoth ThChaoba and Kim Gangte are former Members of Parliament (MPs). The former had even become the Union Minister of State for Food Processing.
\nOn Sunday, both the BJP and the Trinamool Congress, Manipur units have pointed out that there is no governance in Manipur. Both the parties said the increasing cases of violence, rampant drug trafficking and corruption have become the orders of the day.
\n\u201cThere are no roads, bridges and doctors in the hill districts,\u201d alleged the BJP leader while the Trinamook Congress leader said, \u201cDevelopment work in the hill districts have been almost to nothing.\u201d Kim Gangte then said that whenever serious patients are brought to the government hospitals in the state capital the doctors refer the patients to private hospitals like Shija Hospitals. \u201cWhere have all the machines and other facilities provided by the government gone,\u201d asked Kim Gangte.
\nBJP leader ThChaoba then alleged that there are speculations that the state government had sold Manipur\u2019s lands to outsiders in Jiribam sub-division (Manipur-Assam border). \u201cWe will find out if these are true,\u201d vows the BJP leader.
\nThese allegations have come three days after the BJP in Manipur had demanded for the declaration of the assets of the ministers.
\nOn Friday last, Manipur unit BJP spokesperson Y Nilamani Singh had told reporters at the party\u2019s office here that as per a Supreme Court ruling, all the food like rice and sugar which are about to run out of their expiry dates must be distributed to the poor instead of freeing them to go waste.
\nHe had alleged that the Manipur Government lets large quantity of food worth croes of rupees to go waste in the state despite the apex court ruling.
\nAbout 1114 metric tonne of rice and sugar which can be consumed by the poor for more than one year goes waste every year under this Government against the Supreme Court judgement, he had accused.
\nAsking what exactly the CAF & PD Director, Commissioner and minister have been doing in the last 12 years of Congress rule in the state, Nilamani said that the food specialist\/inspector never looks into the matter seriously.
\nHe had said BJP wanted an independent body like the CBI to carry out a thorough investigation into the activities of these director, commissioner and minister and punish them, asking the real motive of the Congress behind the throwing away of food meant for the underprivileged citizens of the state during the last 17 years.
\nThe people voted the 42 Congress MLAs, but it was not that they wanted them to loot their stomach, the BJP leader had said.
\n\u201cFlagship programme does nothing here in the state. The deprived section of the society under the AAY and BPL never get the benefits,\u201d the Manipur unit of BJP spokesperson had further alleged.
\nHe also had said that the BJP wanted the Chief Minister and his council of ministers and MLAs declare their assets at the earliest and asked the reason for not declaring their assets till now even after the formation of a sub-committee which has been entrusted with the task.<\/p>\n\n