IMPHAL, January 6: The rift in Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP) widened after the W. Nipamacha Singh-led United Front of Manipur government signed a 12-point action plan with the Union home ministry today. Many senior MSCP leaders, loyal to Union minister of state for food processing Thounaojam Chaoba Singh termed the action plan a sell out of the state's powers to the Centre. The UFM comprises the MSCP and the Federal Party of Manipur (FPM). The action plan, chalked out to tackle militancy and improve the administration in the state, was submitted by Nipamacha Singh to Union home minister...

IMPHAL, December 6: With differences widening between the working president of the MSCP, T Chaoba and president W Nipamacha, moves are on to remove Nipamacha from the post of president, revealed an inside source of the party today. According to the source a hush-hush meeting of the Central Executive meeting of the party was held a few days back wherein prudent to remove Nipamacha as chief of the MSCP. The source added 14 of the 21 members of the Central Executive were present at the secret meeting. Union Minister and working president T Chaoba was also present at the meeting. When TSE...

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 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 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...