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 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...

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: 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...

NEW DELHI, January 3: A comprehensive action plan to bring the administration of trouble torn Manipur back on the rails is likely to be finalised at a meeting between the Union home ministry and state government leaders here tomorrow, even as four major parties sought imposition of President's Rule in the state. A meeting to finalise the action plan, prepared by Chief minister W Nipamacha Singh and his ministerial colleagues, slated for today was postponed till tomorrow, home ministry sources said. The sources said the chief minister was likely to meet home minister LK Advani for the purpose...