Terror foresees even before commencement of election; Beware
- Imphal Times Editorial :: October 14 2016 -

‘Congress’ or ‘BJP’ now is the choice of those aspiring candidates of the upcoming 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly election which is expected to hold in the beginning of 2017.

Not less than three or more aspiring candidates have joined the BJP which had gain massive popularity across the Nation since the party showed a massive victory.

The right wing political party is on the rise and in the state of Manipur many self proclaim social workers with sufficient bank balance had already enrolled themselves to the party hopping to get a party ticket in the upcoming assembly poll.

On the other hand, in its strategy to get more seats in the 11th Assembly session, sitting MLAs were even assured party tickets as it is also a courtesy for any political party to provide party ticket to seating MLA whether he is a new comer or not.

Leaving aside the new comers MLAs, many hard core workers of the BJP will be frustrated the day when party ticket for election is announced.

This is natural, because political parties are only entitled to field only one candidate at one Assembly constituency. The issued is with the congress party too.

The four setting MLAs of the Trinamool congress who had recently joined the party cannot be simply left as scapegoat.

But some of the hard core congress leaders are surely going to rebel against any decision to provide party ticket by leaving aside the old timer congress candidates.

Well with the days of election approaching, name of the candidates has to be announced. Many a times newspaper reports about agreement within aspirant candidates to support to any candidate whom the BJP offer ticket.

But will it be possible? There is a saying that politics is the last resort of scoundrels.

And we have already seen that in politics everything is possible.

Or who could have ever imagined that a leader of left wing political party will join the extreme right wing party just because he does not light ahead in the upcoming assembly election.

Last election i.e during the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly election, there was uproar at congress bhavan after a congress man was denied ticket.

This is being recalled because all candidate aspirants chose BJP as their platform in view of its rising popularity.

Except for one or two they will use whatever power they have to snatch the party ticket or else they will chose for another option.

Some of them will even succeed in drawing the sympathy of his or her supporters even after he contested election leaving the BJP.

Manipur is a land where politician or say scoundrel easily gets support for the public.

The attitude of voters is different; it is money and muscle power that the Manipuri voters care and not the sincerity and qualification of the candidate.

To prove their strength anything can happen. And we in the Imphal Times is cautioning the BJP leadership to deploy as many security personnel in and around the office premises of BJP Manipur Pradesh as well as the congress Bhavan.

Both the political party’s authority should also prohibited carrying of weapon either by workers or intending candidates including licence weapons inside the offices of both the political parties.

Election there days is not about serving the people, but it is about power and money.

And for sure those who comes out for power and money can do anything to prove themselves as worthy politician.

Let’s hope leaders of BJP as well as Congress understand the possible outcome after the announcement of these respective candidates.