Chaoba presses Union Ministers to realize poll promises
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 29 2014:
Amidst escalating dissension within state BJP unit with the anti-Chaoba group now camping in New Delhi to pressurize Central party leaders for his ouster, party president Th.Chaoba reportedly urged several ministers of Modi Government to implement all the promises made by BJP to the people of Manipur ahead of the 16th Lok Sabha polls.
Although the non-conformists of the State BJP have been unable to meet any key ministers in New Delhi, it has called on several national leaders of the party in a bid to remove Th Chaoba from the post of president.
The group has also pledged to stay further in the national capital until the issue is addressed by the BJP national leadership once and for all.
Meanwhile, the group led by Chaoba today met several Union Ministers including senior BJP leader and Union Minister for Transport and Shipping Nitin Gadkari at the national capital and asked for early development of National Highways leading to Manipur on top priority basis.
The pro-Chaoba group later called on Venkaiah Naidu, who is in charge of the Ministries of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs and urged him to give special attention towards ensuring benefits of various schemes to the poor.
They also pressed for development of one satellite city for the State of Manipur when the new Narendra Modi Government plans 100 such cities across the country.
Afterwards they met Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home Affairs.
At the meeting, Chaoba and his partymen raised the issue of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), urging the Minister to revoke the Act from the State besides bringing a solution to the Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing issue and recruiting unemployed youths of the State in active services, sources said.
The State BJP leaders also proposed Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting (independent charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (independent charge) & Parliamentary Affairs to take up a project for saving the endangered deer Sangai of Manipur and to develop the Loktak Lake of the State as a world heritage site.