MPP seeks Nagaland CM's intervention in resolving Dz�kou Valley issue
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 23 2015 :
Manipur People's Party (MPP) has written a letter to Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang seeking his timely intervention in the Dz�kou Valley issue.
This was informed to the media by MPP advisor Dr L Chandramani Singh at the party office on Tuesday.
In the letter written to Nagaland CM Zeliang, the party said many dignitaries from Manipur, Nagaland and other neighbouring States used to visit Mao Potato Farm and many of them had visited the Dz�kou Valley and were convinced that the valley was very much within the territorial boundary of Manipur.
The then Chief Minister of Nagaland late Hokise Sema who used to visit the Mao Potato Farm and Dz�kou Valley was convinced that the valley was within Manipur, it said.
The letter singned by MPP president N Sovakiran said the people inhabiting around this area, the Marams, Tadubis, Maos and the so called Southern Anagmis in particular and the whole people in general know the historical truth.
For the last more than 40 years no dispute regarding Dz�kou Valley had ever cropped up and therefore the people of Manipur as a whole should try to protect the territorial boundary of the State.
MPP always stands for friendly relationship with neighbouring States and countries as well, it said, adding the party will never sacrifice Manipur territorial boundary to others.
It said the letter is written based on available records that in the year 1842 a boundary between Manipur and then Naga Hills (present Nagaland), was laid down by Lieutenant Bigge and Captain Gordon.
However, after the Last Battle of Manipur at Khongjom in 1891 the kingdom of Manipur lost her independence and since then no loss or gains in the northern territorial possession of Manipur had ever been made and Mao remains to be within the northern boundary of the State.
"Taking serious note of the growing tension between Mao and Southern Angami people which is rooted in the dispute over Dz�kou Valley I have ventured to rush to you to resolve this issue amicably and establish a sense of security and good neighbourliness by your kind intervention," Sovakiran urged in the letter.