MPP, NCP leaders join BJP
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 08 2012: MPP advisor Thounaojam Chaoba who contested the last Assembly elections on MPP ticket unsuccessfully, NCP vice-president S Rajen and Robin Blakie have left their parent parties and joined BJP.

BJP North East Zonal Organisation Secretary Chandrasekhar Rao claimed that leaders of some other parties have lined up to come within the fold of BJP.

Speaking to media persons at the BJP office here today, Chandrasekhar Rao declared that Th Chaoba, S Rajen and Robin Blakie have been enrolled in BJP.

Notably, Th Chaoba had held the post of BJP State unit president earlier.

Stating that the entry of prominent leaders from other parties would strengthen the position of BJP in Manipur, Chandrasekhar informed that detailed communications have been established with senior leaders of some parties regarding their entry to BJP.

In protest against the Congress-led UPA Government's policy of hiking prices of petrol and many other essential commodities and the unprecedented level of corruption, a country-wide agitation would be carried out on June 22, he said.

Due preparations have been made to carry out the same agitation in sub-divisional headquarters of Manipur.

With the joining of many political heavyweights BJP State unit has taken a new step to expose all the policy failures and flaws of the Congress Government, said State unit president Sh Shantikumar.

A reception ceremony would be held at Imphal with BJP president Nitin Gadkari in honour of the new entrants, he said.

Confiding that BJP has been working hard to ensure election of at least 200 BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha elections likely to he held in 2014, Shantikumar said that BJP would focus on Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh even though the party may field its candidates in all the North Eastern States.

Informing that Nitin Gadkari's tenure expires in December this year, Shantikumar said that enrolment of members for organisational polling to elect a new president would be launched very soon.

Th Chaoba said that he went back to BJP in his quest for an effective opposition party which can expose the failures and shortcomings of the Congress Government.

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