Politics / Manipur

NEW DELHI, January 6 (PTI): After prolonged dithering, Manipur Government today submitted to the Centre a time-bound action plan to tackle insurgency and bring State out of the financial rut, besides agreeing to a CBI probe into scams relating to State lotteries and fake appointments. The plan, which was finalised after days of deliberations between officials of the Union Home Ministry and the state Government, also includes preparations of a counter-militancy plan, setting up of special security apex committee and an independent VIP security review committee. "I am extremely optimistic that...

NEW DELHI, January 6: The Central Government has imposed tough conditions on W. Nipamacha Singh-led Manipur State Government forcing him to order a CBI probe into the Manipur lottery scam and alleged fake appointments in the State Education Department. The Action Plan prepared by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has left little choice for the Chief Minister, who faces the prospect of being dismissed, to either act or face the consequences. The Action Plan prepared in consultation with the State Government has sought to beef up the security arrangement in the State, besides toning up the...

IMPHAL, January 5: The recently developed chasm between Manipur Chief Minister, Nipamacha Singh, and the Union Minister of State for Food Processing, Thounaojam Chaoba Singh, seems to have widened further with the two continuing to react differently to the prevailing stalemate in the State. This development is the result of the fact that while the Chief Minister and president of MSCP Nipamacha Singh is trying hard to save his chair, its working president Chaoba Singh is in favour of imposition of President's rule in Manipur, highly placed sources said. As the Union Minister has taken this...

IMPHAL, January 5: The fortune of the Samata Party, Manipur unit seems to be on an upswing. Two more MLAs, namely Haokholet Kipgen and L Jayenta of the newly formed, Progressive Federal Party of Manipur, a breakaway group of the FPM, have joined its ranks. The party's central president Jaya Jaitley, in a signed press release announced this in New Delhi today saying this has brought up the strength of the party in the Manipur Assembly to 13. This new development is close on the heels of the merger into the party yesterday, of 10 breakaway Congressmen who were under the banner of the Manipur...

IMPHAL, January 4: After the anticipatory protection granted to Ruling MLAs Onjamang Haokip and Md Allauddin against any disqualification order by Manipur Assembly Speaker Dhananjoy, the Gauhati High Court has extended similar protection to the five other Ruling MLAs whose disqualification cases are still pending. In a separate development, a division bench of the High Court, principal seat, has directed that the Speaker should pursue his appeal against the court's earlier judgement concerning Onjamang Haokip and Md Allauddin in a single bench of the court. According to reports from Guwahati...

IMPHAL, January 4: Amidst political speculations and hectic behind the screen-maneuverings, the chief minister, W Nipamacha who is not out of woods as yet failed to have a meeting with the Union Home Minister LK Advani. Sources close to MSCP say that the meeting had to be cancelled, as there is national executive meeting of the BJP. However, the fact is that this BJP meeting had been fixed long time back, and the Union Home minister who had fixed the meeting with the chief minister could not have forgotten this national executive meeting. A report from New Delhi said that the Union Home...

IMPHAL, January 4: The political circles in Manipur are keeping their fingers crossed with the prevailing imbroglio involving the ruling and Opposition fronts becoming more and more complex day by day. It is like a lottery game between the ruling and Opposition and it is not known what direction the political winds will blow in the coming days. The spokesperson of the Opposition and president of the Manipur People's Party (MPP) O Joy Singh has claimed that the Union Home Minister LK Advani has given enough indication that the Centre will throw its weight fully behind the recently formed...

NEW DELHI, January 4: In a new twist to political turmoil in Manipur, ten Congress MLAs, who had broken ranks and floated a regional party, today joined Samata Party raising its strength to 11 in the 60-member State Assembly, reports PTI. Led by Radhabinod Koijam, the legislators announced their addressed by Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitly. The ten MLAs recently parted ways from Congress and formed Manipur Regional Congress Party under the presidentship of Koijam who has now been unanimously elected leader of Samata legislature party in Manipur. Congress, which had 11 members in the House, is...

IMPHAL, January 4: The breakaway Manipur Regional Congress Party, consisting of ten Congress MLAs who split recently from the party, has merged with the Samata party. An announcement to this effect was made by the Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitley today in New Delhi. The move raises the strength of the Samata Party to 11 in the state Assembly. The party previously had only one representative, state unit president Wangkhem Basantakumar. According to sources in New Delhi, Radhabinod Koijam, who led the breakaway Congress faction, has been chosen the Samata Party legislature wing leader in the...

IMPHAL, January 3: The writ appeal filed by the chief minister Wahengbam Nipamacha against Assembly Speaker S Dhananjoy's rejection of the no-confidence motion filed against him by the United Front MIAs will come up for final hearing in the principal bench of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal bench tomorrow. In addition, a division bench of the same court will be hearing a writ appeal from the side of the Speaker against the anticipatory protection granted to MLAs Md Allauddin and Onjamang Haokip from disqualification by an order of the court on December 21 last. It may be mentioned that a single...