Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 02:
After the PREPAK, the proscribed KCP has also declared to stop taking 'its quota' of kerosene oil.
A press release issued by the outfit's information and publicity secretary H Poirei supplementing the findings of the KYKL and UNLF on the scarcity of kerosene and high price stated that the scarcity of kerosene and its high price is due to selling kerosene oil in bulk by authorised dealers and sub-dealers before it reaches the hands of the common people.
The same practice has been going on before UG groups took their share of SK oil as well as after UG groups started taking their share.
As dealers and sub-dealers have been distributing SK oil within very short and specific periods, many people have not been taking their due shares.
On the whole, the rate of kerosene utilization in the domestic sector has been decreasing, asserted Poirei.
But the ones who are always on the look-out to buy kerosene in bulk from black markets are the petrol dealers, asserted the outfit citing different instances when petrol samples were found adulterated with kerosene.
Despite all these, the KCP has decided not to take its quota of kerosene oil after considering the current power situation and also to test the sincerity of the Chief Minister and his council of Ministers who have been crying on every occasion that no development projects/schemes can be implemented in the State due to interference by militants.
Repeated propaganda that UG groups are responsible for failure of different projects in Manipur is just a ploy and an act of deceiving the people by Chief Minister O Ibobi, his council of Ministers and bureaucrats to cover up their corrupt activities and robbing of huge amounts of money sanctioned for development purposes.
The outfit further asked the people to be cautious against any act of day light robbery by the State Government.