Politics / Manipur

Imphal, February 01: Even though the spectre of election related violence looms large, the State Government will not be able to provide security escorts to all the candidates as the number of security personnel to be deployed here has fallen far short from the target desired by the administration. DIG (Ops) HS Sandhu who is also the Nodal Officer of the election told this reporter today that all the candidates have approached the Government for security guards but the Government is just not in a position to provide the same to all the candidates. There are charges of discrimination by the...

Imphal, January 30: Altogether 14, 72,784 voters including 1568 service voters will decide the fate of 368 candidates including five women in the forthcoming 8th Assembly election in February. The first phase of the election on February 14 in 40 valley Assembly constituencies will see a total electorate of 8, 88,895 including 461209 females. Another 336 service voters will also exercise their franchise in the polls. The second phase poll falling on February 21 in 20 hill Assembly constituencies will have 582321 voters including 292771 females. The number of service voters is 1232. Of the 60...

Imphal, January 29: Sleuths of the Imphal West Narcotics Cell have busted a racket of Sikhs indulging in collection of money from the public on the false promise of supplying items of a non-existent company with the arrest of 22 members from Hotel Tampha at North AOC this morning. The total amount of money collected by the gang from the public is being estimated, official sources said. The 22 gang members hail from Bijnoor district's Nurpur in Uttar Pradesh. They were produced before media persons today. An official of the Narcotics Cell said the gang members were nabbed when they conducted a...

IMPHAL, Jan 29 : Altogether 374 candidates are in the fray for the forthcoming two-phase Manipur Assembly elections after the withdrawal of nomination papers by 17 candidates, election office sources said on Thursday, reports PTI. Seventeen candidates, withdrew nomination papers on the last day of withdrawal of papers on Monday, the sources said. However, a detailed report of withdrawal of nomination papers was yet to be received from some returning officers in interior parts of the State, the sources said. The first phase of elections to the 60-seat Assembly will he held in two phases on...

IMPHAL, Jan 27 — Unidentified gunmen attacked the house of a Manipur People’s Party (MPP) candidate at Yairipok area in Thoubal district on Tuesday night, official report reaching here said today, reports PTI. The report said the gunmen opened fire at the private house of Nimaichand Luwang, the candidate from Wangkhem constituency, but no casualty was reported. Luwang was not present at the time of the incident, the report said.

Imphal, January 25: The Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, has released its election manifesto today, which lays stress on reconciliation among the people of the state, sustainable economic development, conflict resolutions, human rights, women?s empowerment, genuine state autonomy, a new education policy, bringing HIV/AIDS under control and the environment. Elaborating on the promises made in the manifesto, the party president Khaidem Mani told media persons that if the opportunity to form the government, the DPP would abolish all artificial barriers that have come up between people in Manipur...

IMPHAL, Jan 24 — After five days of ceasework strike against the attack on the life of deputy superintendent of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Dr P Bedikumar, the doctors and employees of the institute decided to resume normal service by opening the emergency service and morgue of the hospital from Wednesday. The Joint Action Committee (JAC) against shooting incident in RIMS hospital in a meeting held on Tuesday, also decided to suspend its ceasework strike agitation from January 25. The convenor of the JAC while talking to the newsmen, said that the decision to call off the...

Imphal, January 24: Scrutiny of the nomination papers filed by candidates for the forthcoming elections to the Manipur state Assembly was completed without significant disturbance at the offices of the designated returning officers of the respective Assembly constituencies today. According to updated reports, altogether 391 candidates have filed nomination papers for the forthcoming Assembly polls in the sixty Assembly segments in the state. Reports said the papers of all candidates who filed nominations for the 13 Assembly constituencies in Imphal west district, the 10 constituencies in...

Imphal, January 24: The state election security coordination committee has taken serious note of the recent spate of attacks on the residences of candidates and politicians and decided to enhance security measures to prevent such further incidents. The security coordination meeting held its fourth meeting today, chaired by the chief secretary, Rakesh. The DGP, Manipur, AA Siddique, principal secretary (elections), DS Poonia, principal secretary (home) PBO Warjari, 1G (law and order) R Basar, election nodal officer DIG (ops) Sandhu), commandant, 9 sector, Brig Sabharwal, commissioner, transport...

IMPHAL, Jan 24 — Most of the political parties in the State have pledged to fight the dreaded disease — AIDS as part of its poll plank. Political parties like the Congress Party, Samata Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, Nationalist Congress Party and the Federal Party of Manipur have expressed their interest to bring out a comprehensive policy on AIDS. Former Chief Minister Radhabinod Koijam while expressing his view during the two-day workshop on “Sensitisation of political leaders and parties to HIV/AIDS issues,” urged the people’s representatives to extend cooperation for resolving the problem...