IMPHAL, Oct 3: Against backdrop of the allegations that he had embezzled party fund, former MLA and Manipur State NCP chief who is also the former chief minister of Manipur Radhabinod Koijam (RB) today not only lashing out at his own partyman MLA Ibomcha accusing him of eating up of huge party fund but detailed about the amount the NCP, Manipur unit was funded in the last assembly election.
Radhbinod Koijam who is also the Opposition leader in Manipur Legislative Assembly countercharged NCP MLA Ibomcha that the Keishamthong constituency representative was the real man who had misused the party money and not him.
“A criminal suit will be filed against Ibomcha for his absolutely groundless charges against me,” former chief minister Radhabinod Koijam threatened while interacting with the media at his residence here on Wednesday.
The Nationalist Congress Party, Manipur State Unit has been locked in a serious dispute over the post of State party president following he submitted his resignation letter to the party national president on March 6 this year. But the NCP chief Sharad Pawar had rejected the resignation letter. However, in April this year, Radhabonod was re-elected as State NCP president.
At the interation with the media, Radhabinod flanked by State NCP vice president Wangnukom, general secretary Md Rahimuddin and other mmbers, said he took the decision after the party was utterly defeated in the last Manipur assembly polls.
At the same time, NCP national general secretary TP Peethambaran Master had issued an order on June 22 last which said that the Manipur State NCP president Radhabinod Koijam along with the party State committee had been dissolved and formed an adhoc committee with MLA Ibomcha its convenor.
On the other hand, according to a court ruling, the adhoc committee was restricted from functioning.
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