LAMKA, April 7: The United People Front, UPF has strongly refuted a news report carried in an Imphal based local daily about the issue concerning the integrity of the front.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media persons today, leaders of the front said the concern media had reported that the UPF and the KNO are threatening the public to vote for the Congress.<\/p>\n
The leaders said it is totally baseless and concocted and not at all based on the truth.<\/p>\n
“It is a fabricated and cooked up story by vested groups who want to spoil the cordial relation that exist among the tribal groups in Manipur,” they said.<\/p>\n
They also said that the UPF had lifted its boycott of the Congress party but it doesn’t mean that it is supporting the party.<\/p>\n
Admitting that they can’t speak on behalf of the other organization, be it the Kuki National Organization (KNO) , they say that it will be very unnatural for the UPF to support and force the people in the village to vote in favor of one party.<\/p>\n
They also refuted that the outfits as reported were against the NPF considering it Naga-centric and that it should be defeated in the election.<\/p>\n\n