Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 27 2010:
A two day residential camp of the Manipur People's Party (MPP) was kicked off today at Chingkhu Cosmopolitan High School under the aegis of MPP Khundrakpam Kendra Committee.
The camp attended by around 100 MPP supporters coming from different polling stations of Khundrakpam Assembly constituency was opened by party president Dr Nimaichand Luwang after unfurling the party's flag.
Speaking at the occasion, Dr Nimaichand said that the party has been working hard to form a nonCongress Government after the 2012 Assembly elections by forging alliances with political parties other than the Congress.
He appealed to all political parties to work together as so to end the rule of Congress in the State.
Claiming that the MPP has strong base in all the 40 Assembly segments of the valley, though it has limited presence in the 20 Assembly constituency of the hills, Dr Nimaichand said efforts are on to make alliance with like minded parties which can take on the Congress in the hill districts.
Likewise, MPP will go together with political parties other than Congress in the valley districts.
Even as CPI is a partner of the Congress-led SPF Government, the two parties will not go together in elections.
They would be contesting against each other.
The Left parties and Congress have already parted ways at the Centre.
Dr Luwang went on to say that peace and development will be possible only after the present trend of administration is replaced by a new one together with new policies and programmes.
Taking a dig at the Government's assurance to penalise the IRB personnel involved in assaulting some advocates whereas it acted mute and dumb when the Advocate General was shot and injured by a Cabinet Minister, Dr Luwang remarked that such attitude of the Government has seriously demeaned status of politicians before the general public.
Some MLAs are even involved in contract works rather than speaking for public in the Assembly.
Under such leaders, it is really disappointing to imagine the future of Manipur, he added.
The MPP president asserted that the residential camp would help in grooming able and popular politicians.
In another sense, the camp is a training session of the MPP to prepare its supporters for the political battles ahead, he maintained.