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Manipur: Blast rocks Imphal a day before polls
IBNLIVE | Updated Jan 27, 2012 at 01:13pm IST | New Delhi:
A day before polls in Manipur, one person has been injured in a blast in west district of Imphal. Police say they suspect the used of IED in the blast. The area has been evacuated.
The blast occurred a day after campaigning for Manipur assembly election ended on Thursday.
Manipur will on Saturday elect a new 60-member assembly to mark the start of make-or-break elections in five states. The staggered exercise, which ends with the vote in Goa and Uttar Pradesh on March 3, will be this year's first major test for political parties. Along with Uttarakhand and Punjab, a grand total of 137 million voters will be eligible to exercise their franchise in the five states. Official sources said major insurgent organisations had been targeting and attacking Congress workers and candidates in the past two weeks by lobbing grenades or exploding bombs.
A spokesman of the Maniur people's party (MPP) told mediapersons that the Congress had failed to deliver the results during its last ten-year rule. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javedkar had earlier said that Manipur had witnessed a spurt in corruption and criminal activities during the last ten-year Congress rule.
Alleging that the government remained silent about incidents like the one in which state advocate general Koteshore Singh was shot at by a minister during a tour and the killing of a boy by a minister's son, he asked "Was there at all any government in the state?" Demanding action against the culprits, he said if the BJP was voted to power it would put the guilty behind bars besides correcting the system.
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