CM to visit CCpur for journalists' seminar
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, May 04 2017:
Chief Minister N Biren is all set to attend a seminar that will be jointly organised by the Editors ' Guild Manipur and the Manipur Hill Journalists' Union at Lamka Press Club on Saturday.
Chief Minister along with IPR Minister Th Biswajit Singh and Commissioner IPR K Radhakumar is scheduled to arrive at 10.30 am to attend a reception that has been planned on the side-lines of the seminar.
, Preparations for the Chief Minister's maiden visit to the district have already been taken up on a war footing.
Roads leading to the Press Club have been repaired and the Press Club renovations are in full swing.
A team from Imphal engaged to erect a podium have also started their works tonight.
The visit is likely to draw significant interest amongst the local communities as it will come amid an ensuing stalemate on talks between the Government and the JACAATB coupled with the fact that bodies of eight, among the nine 'tribal martyrs,' are still lying awaiting their burial.
It is learnt that the JACAATB held talks with the Chief Minister yesterday, for close to three hours, with the Chief Minister reportedly spelling out the terms acceptable to the Government from the JAC's charter", of demands.
Yesterday ' s talk was the third meeting between the two sides.
Accordingly, the JACAATB has convened a public meeting tomorrow, a day ahead of the Chief Minister's visit, to discuss the Government's offer.
Details of the Government's, offer have not been spelt out as yet.
A public invitation of the JACAATB circulated today said, with the Manipur Government having spelt out the terms acceptable to them on May 3, 2017 in the third round meeting with the joint delegates of the JACAATB, the committee is inviting the public to discuss the same.
JACAATB convenor H Mangchinkhup however dispelled the idea of the Chief Minister's visit having any link with their talks or tomorrow's public meeting.
"The visit has nothing to do with the JACAATB and we have no plans to meet him either as of now," he said, when contacted today.
Yet the issue of resolving the pending issues with, JACAATB and that the unburied martyrs are still believed to, have topped the agenda if he indeed visits the district on, Saturday as the ruling party has openly declared that ending the prolonged economic blockade and burying the bodies of the martyrs are among their top priorities.