Manipur News

IMPHAL, February 4: The All Manipur United Club Organisation has extended its support to the Tengnoupal villagers, even as the 12 hour long bandh called by the United Committee Manipur in support of the Imphal-Moreh highway bandh affected normal life in the State today.

The AMUCO has urged the State government to bring a solution without delay, failing which it has warned to intensify the agitation against the government with the help of civil bodies and the people. Speaking to the media at a press briefing at its office today, AMUCO president Dr Mani Khuman said the civil body has remained silent till date because it was awaiting positive actions from the state government but no possible steps has been taken up. The civil body has decided to support the bandh in future also, he added.

The inhumane harassment in the name of security checking without exceptions to aged people, pregnant women, sick people by 24 AR to passengers has continued for many years back, he said, adding the government has never realized that it`™s only going to lose from these incessant troubles along the Imphal-Moreh road in the long run.

Stressing that the inhumane torture given by the Assam Rifles to the normal people in the name of security checks must stop at the earliest, he said various kinds of highly sophisticated machines can be utilised for detecting any suspicious objects without manually checking the passengers of each passing vehicle in the present era.

However, he said, the AR is unfortunately avoiding the use of these instruments and harassing the people by compelling them to unload and load the heavy goods on every occasion.

He also demanded the removal of the 24 AR and warned to launch strong agitations if the government didn`™t remove them.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/02/amuco-shows-support-to-tengnoupal-villagers/

IMPHAL, February 4: The BJP Manipur Pradesh would never subscribed to the term `immigrants` used in the party`™s Vision Document for the Delhi Assembly Election, said the party`™s State spokesperson in a press release.

The BJP Headquarter has sincerely clarified that it has no bad intention towards the people of North East and that the people of the region are as good as the people of Delhi, he said.

`The word `immigrants`™ was mistakenly used and is being removed,` he said adding that this was made public through the national spokesperson MJ Akbar.

Minister of State of Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju has also clarified that the word was wrongly typed and that he regretted the error which had sparked off a national controversy and hurt the sentiments of the people of the region, he said in the statement.

Stating that the BJP Manipur Pradesh president had a telephonic communique with the central leadership of the party on the issue this morning, he said the Centre had also reassured the love and care of the people of the region.

The BJP Manipur strongly stands to uphold the spirit of Manipur and it would continue to serve the purpose in the coming days too, he said.

The word has been removed and the people are appealed to be on guard from other political trouble mongers and mud slingers, he said calling the use of the word in the vision document a `human error.`™

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2015/02/state-bjp-clarifies-use-of-immigrants-was-an-error/