Non-Cong parties to decide over 'common candidate' issue on September 1
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 25 2013:
Even though some of the non-Congress parties are all set to field their respective candidates in the coming Lok Sabha election, regardless of the common mission of bringing down the CM Ibobi-led Congress Government in the State, a meeting of the non-Congress parties has been called to finally decide on whether common candidates should be field or not.
Informing this to Hueiyen Lanpao, N Tombi, Convener of the non-Congress parties, stated that a meeting of the non-Congress political parties would be held at the office of JD (U) State unit on September 1 next where the issue of "common candidates" will be discussed in detail and a final decision would be taken.
He further assured that confusion created over the common candidate issue among the general public with some of the non-Congress Political parties trying to field their own respective candidates in the Lok Sabha elections will be finally settled after the scheduled meeting.
Tombi went on to inform that the meeting will also discuss minutely on the Indo-Myanmar border fencing issue.
The matter has already been brought to the notice of the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister through a memorandum submitted by a delegation of non-Congress political parties of the State led by State unit BJP President Th Chaoba and himself at New Delhi.
The proposed Sep 1 meeting of the non-Congress parties will also deliberate on the issue of rise in price of essential commodities, deprivation of PDS items to the public, deplorable road condition even in the urban areas, etc, he added.
It may be mentioned that among the non-Congress political parties in the State, the CPI has decided to bring up Dr M Nara as a candidate in the coming Lok Sabha election from the Inner Parliamentary constituency; the BJP has decided to field own candidates in both inner and outer parliamentary constituency and the Trinamool Congress has also decided to field its State President Kim Gangte as its candidate from the outer Manipur Parliamentary constituency.