Chaoba left for Delhi to meet BJP Central leaders
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 17 2014 :
State BJP president Th Chaoba left Imphal for New Delhi this afternoon after the party's Central leadership summoned him.
During the visit, Chaoba is also likely to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi as the next Prime Minister of the country.
Earlier, Chaoba addressed a press conference at the State BJP office here where he assured that during his visit to the national capital, four key issues of the State would be raised before the party's national leaders for prompt action.
Development of connectivity like repairing of Imphal-Jiri road, adequate availability of safe drinking water, detection of illegal installation of power lines, possession of Loktak Hydroelectric Power Project by the State Government and investigation into the implementation of MGNREGS under which beneficiaries are now allegedly getting only 30 days of work in the State are the issues that Chaoba is likely to put before the BJP national leadership.
BJP has utterly defeated Congress party in the national elections through the people's verdict, he said.
However, conceding State BJP's rout in the two Lok Sabha seats, Chaoba, a former MP, explained that the Modi wave reached Manipur too and it was shown in the improvement of the party's performance in the Lok Sabha election this time.
Commenting on the next NDA Government, he said it would not have to face a full-fledged opposition bench because the number of opposition MPs should reach at least 10 percent mark in the Lok Sabha which is a 543-member House.
To a media query on the public demand for revocation of Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, (AFSPA) from Manipur, Chaoba commented that this task requires amendment in the Constitution which will take time, but suggested that Manipur's case can follow the Nagaland model in which the Government of that State removed the Disturbed Area status.
"If Manipur Government withdraws the Disturbed Area Status, then it would not be necessary to invoke AFSPA," he suggested.