Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 03:
Outer Parliamentary MP Mani Charenamai has said that there had been differences between the NSCN-IM and New Delhi on the UPA�s Common Minimum Programme with regard to a clause but after some MPs had opposed to it things were different.
Addressing a felicitation programme in Chandel today in his honour, Chare- namai said that the Naga MPs had opposed strongly to the clause and on July 7 when President Abdul Kalam in his address to the joint House of Parliament and read out the CMP but the particular was not mentioned by the President.
The MP said that Nagas had been struggling for peace for so long and now they deserve to have peace.
He urged the public of Chandel not to provoke any one while supporting the Naga peace process.
Mani Charenamai said that his top priority would be to improve roads in the hill districts of Manipur adding that he had asked for the road map of Manipur from the Works Minister of the state yesterday of which the latter assured to provide at the earliest.
He confessed that it would be improper to expect the public of the hills that he could fulfilled all their wishes but added that he would try his best to help out the economic problems of the tribals.
Charenamai also said that because of the immense misuse of natural resources in the tribal areas people are suffering now and appealed to the public not to exploit the resources but to think for the younger generations to come.
He revealed that he had already released some money to the hill districts to provide seedlings for issuing free of cost for the people living in the hills.
The MP once again confessed that he achieved nothing as yet but said that he is putting all his might to help the people in his constituency.
All the ethnic tribal group presidents confining in the Chandel district presented one shawl each along with a memorandum each .Cultural programmes were presented in the MP�s honour.