Imphal, December 03: Taking serious note of the protracted impasse within the Congress Legislature Party, the Manipur Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee has conveyed its desire to end the impasse within December 15 and to make someone who has the interest of the Congress workers at heart the CLP leader.

Talking to media persons this afternoon at Congress Bhavan, Mahila Congress Committee president M Priyomala said that the existing impasse within the CLP is causing more difficulties and anxiety to Congress workers.

In case, the two rival groups cannot arrive at an amicable solution within December 15, the Mahila Congress will present the case to Sonia Gandhi and urge for her intervention.

During the recent trip to Delhi to attend an AICC session there, the Mahila Congress president appealed to the AICC president to look into the crisis arising out of the demand for a change in the leadership of the CLP and to send observers to Manipur as soon as possible, she conveyed.

Disclosing that written applications were submitted to Chief Minister O Ibobi, who is also the CLP leader, to take up some welfare programmes for Congress workers, she lamented that the Chief Minister has taken up nothing concrete towards this end till date.

Priyomala also claimed that party supporters who have been working for the Congress all their life want to have someone sympathetic to Congress workers including those working at grass root level as the CLP leader.

Reacting to the reported statement issued by the Khangabok Congress Mahila Mandal which said that the move to replace O Ibobi as Chief Minister of Manipur was unfortunate and illtimed, Priyomala asserted that no self-styled functionaries of the Khangabok Block Mahila Congress should take advantage of the situation when AICC leadership is trying to patch up the rift among the Congress MLAs.

Stating that there is no such body as Khangabok Block Congress Mahila Committee at present, Priyomala denounced the alleged undue remark made by a few self-proclaimed Block Mahila functionaries who appeared to be influenced by other people in the context of the continuing internal crisis of the CLP.

She observed that the act of some unscrupulous elements aimed at reaping personal benefits out of the political crisis is against the rules and established norms of the Congress party which she claimed is a disciplined party.

The Manipur Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee president also warned all Block and District Committees not to act without prior permission from the State Committee.

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