Politics / Manipur

IMPHAL, January 21: The powerful All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU) has launched a Statewide mass condemnation month from today all over the State in protest against the attack on its president Khoirom Gourashyam inside the AMSU headquarter on January 17 by some armed youths. The Statewide mass condemnation month will be in effect till February 17 next. The students body has also set January 30 as the deadline for clarification from revolutionary groups operating in Manipur on the attack. Disclosing this to a group of mediapersons, the general secretary of AMSU Premananda Yumnam said that the...

IMPHAL, January 21: Former BJP state unit president, Col (retd) Haobam Bhubon, MLA, said he is willing to take Rishang's dare to the Opposition MLAs and resign if that will ensure President's Rule and usher in a fresh mandate of the people. Speaking to IFP today, Col Bhubon said the present government has taken the state to its worst ever nadir and deserves to be replaced at any cost. Taking a page out of the Army manual for discipline, he said there are no bad soldiers, there are only bad officers. If the leadership is good, those who follow will also have to be good, he explained. "And this...

NEW DELHI, January 21: In a desperate bid to survive, a beleaguered Manipur Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh has committed himself to toe Home Ministry's line to tone up the administration including crackdown on police set up, transfer of rebel police forces and sacking of 800 ad hoc employees, reports PTI. The Manipur Government has agreed to replace DGP DS Grewal with another IPS officer "to be provided by Home Ministry", a leading Northeast weekly has reported in its latest issue. Among other points reportedly agreed upon by Singh in a meeting with Home Minister LK Advani on January 6 here...

IMPHAL, January 20: Opposition parties in Manipur are going to oppose any move of the Central Government regarding extension of ceasefire between the Government of India and the banned National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) in any part of Manipur. A delegation of the Manipur Democratic Front (MDF), the combined front of the Opposition of the State, will pressurise the Centre not to extend the ceasefire agreement to any Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur. This was informed by the leaders of the Opposition during a press conference hold at the Speaker's bungalow on Friday evening. The...

IMPHAL, January 20: Former Chief Minister and the lone Congress MLA in the Assembly, Rishang Keishing has accused the Opposition alliance, Manipur Democratic Front and Radhabinod Koijam of thwarting the Centre's move to impose PR in the State. Speaking to The Sangai Express, the veteran Congressman said that Centre had already started the process of imposing PR in the State. He said that Union Home Minister LK Advani had sought the opinion of AICC president Sonia Gandhi's view on the matter. The AICC chief in turn asked Pranab Mukherjee and Ambika Soni visit the State and assess the situation...

IMPHAL, January 19: Hundreds of students today staged sit in protest at all main roads of the city against the attack on AMSU president Kh Gourashyam by unidentified gunmen inside the AMHU HQ located at the campus of DM College on January 17. Gourashyam who is also the president of the Manipur University Students' Union, MUSU, is recuperating at the JN Hospital security ward. Doctors had declared him stable. Sit in protests were held near Johnstone Higher Secondary School, Chingmeirong Khongnang Ani Karak, Singjamei, Wangkhei and in front of Human Resource Development Academy, Ghari and Little...

IMPHAL, January 19: The Manipur Democratic Front has decided to boycott the all-party meeting convened by Speaker Sapam Dhananjoy tomorrow in protest against the allegedly disparaging remarks made by chief minister W. Nipamacha Singh. The meeting has been convened to discuss the possibility of resuming the winter session of the Assembly, which was adjourned sine die on December 1. Opposition leaders are still fuming over Nipamacha Singh's remark that he does not like the company of legislators from "smaller parties". The chief minister said so in defence of his decision to boycott a meeting...

IMPHAL, January 19: Opposition spokesman O Joy today categorically stated that unless the chief minister tenders an unqualified apology to the Opposition for its utterances the Opposition would not attend the joint meeting called by the Speaker tomorrow to discuss the reconvening of the House. The chief minister had earlier stated that he would never share the same table with the Opposition. Speaking to reporters at the Speaker's official bungalow this evening the MPP MLA said the Opposition will not take the statement of the Chief Minister lightly. He added such mindless utterance is highly...

IMPHAL, January 19: Manipur Legislative Assembly Speaker Sapam Dhananjoy, in an effort to reconvene the House, has called a meeting of legislature party leaders of both ruling and Opposition groups in January 20 for a second time. It may be recalled that the Governor of the State Ved Marwah had already wrote to the Speaker S Dhananjoy for an early reconvening of the Assembly session on January 13 last. The meeting of the legislature party leaders of both opposition and ruling will begin at 2 pm tomorrow, sources said. The speaker said he had earlier called a meeting of leaders of the ruling...

IMPHAL, January 18: The 24 hour bandh called by the All Manipur Students' Union, AMSU, in protest against the assassination attempt on AMSU president Kh Gourashyam seriously affected life in Imphal east and west districts, but had relatively lesser affected elsewhere in the state. No major untoward incident was reported during the strike, which began at midnight, though some old tyres were set ablaze on the road at Uripok, Yaiskul and Lamphel this morning by some bandh supporters. On the other hand, most educational institutions, including schools, colleges and Manipur University remained shut...