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Nitish Kumar seeks NPF alliance for Manipur Polls
Morung Express | Al Ngullie | Dimapur | November 3
After the dramatic ouster of the then seemingly-unconquerable Laloo Prasad in 2005 to redefine party politics in North India, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is now eying the North East – Manipur and Nagaland.
It is now official that the Janata Dal-United chief has sent feelers to the Naga People’s Front (NPF) for an alliance to contest against Indian National Congress-led Secular Progressive Front (SPF) in Manipur in the forthcoming state assembly elections.
Two of the JD-U’s frontal chiefs were in Dimapur November 3 where the party is said to be willing for the NPF’s hand in the Manipur polls against Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh’s alliance. The party’s in-charge of the North East, General Secretary Arun Kumar Srivastava and JD-U national women’s chief Dipti Sharma, and other party officials were in an interaction with a The Morung Express reporter at Hotel Saramati Thursday.
“We are going to form a third front in Manipur. Although we have no MLA, we are the biggest opposition party in the state,” Srivastava said, referring to Manipur. ‘I am going to meet Chief Minister of Nagaland today to join in the third alliance in Manipur.’
He said ‘Manipur has no government left.’ Out of “365 days, 235 days are ‘bandhs’ (blockades/agitations); the price of petrol is Rs. 250 per liter…” “I think there is no government left,” Srivastava explained. The JD-U leader said that the party is mobilizing to seek President’s Rule in the bandh-ravaged state.
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