Imphal, Feb 6: Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Gaikhangam today slammed both the Naga People’s Front (NPF) and the Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP) and alleged that these two parties were supported by the militant outfits NSCN-IM and Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) respectively in the recent polls to the 10th Manipur Assembly and the re-poll in five hill districts, too.
“The allegation against me that I forcibly made 145 electors to cast their votes in Nungba Assembly Constituency was unfounded,” Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee president Gaikhangam told reporters while briefing at Congress Bhawan here.
Rubbishing the speculation that he was involved in illegal voting for the Congress,he said he kept himself very busy during the whole electoral process and was intensely monitoring the 60 Congress candidates who fought the recent polls and made it clear that over 100 voters exercised their franchise through a reserved/extra EVM at the Nungba Constituency polling station whose re-poll held February 4 after security forces manning there controlled a tense situation. The MPCC president raced the polls from Nungba Assembly Constituency.
Although the number of electors in the polling station is around 600, the voting percentage was too low as supporters of the NPF and the MSCP attacked throwing down stones uphill which caused injuries to the security personnel and damage to the roof of the polling station even as the polling officials were forced to put off the EVM, Gaikhangam alleged.
He also hit out at the NPF, saying that the Nagaland based political party supported the MSCP to defeat Congress candidate in the course of the re-polling in Nungba Constituency.
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