Imphal, January 29 2009: The question of whether the BJP will field its candidate in the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election due to be held sometime in April/May this year will be decided during the three-day long National executive meeting of the party scheduled to begin from February 6 at Nagpur.

As for the seat of the Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency, the party had already announced the name of former Chief Minister Wahengbam Nipamacha as its candidate.

State unit BJP president Dr Haobam Borbabu informed that to take a final decision on whether BJP should field its candidate for the Outer Manipur Parliamentary seat or not, the matter would be taken up for discussion at the National executive meeting of the party to be held at Nagpur.

As there is already an official candidate of the party for the Inner seat, the Nagpur meeting would also discuss when should the election campaign be started, Dr Borbabu added.

Meanwhile, MPP is also likely to take a final decision and announce the name of its official candidate for the Inner seat after discussing the matter at the Working Committee of the party scheduled to be held on January 31.The party is however, not likely to contest for the seat of the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency.

However, Dr Borbabu has observed that in the spirit of NDA partners if MPP supports the BJP candidate for the Inner and the BJP reciprocates the same to MPP if its contest for the Outer seat, then the defeat of Congress candidates in both the seats would be a certainty.

But in case, both BJP and MPP are going to contest their candidates against each other, then it would be to the favour of the Congress.

As there is no such thing called 'uncompromising stance' in politics, BJP has not yet taken any definite decision on fielding its candidate for the Outer seat.

So ahead of he National executive meeting, BJP would like to know whether MPP would contest for the Outer seat or not.

Because BJP would be bound to abide by the party decision after the said National meeting, Dr Borbabu said.

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