UNC kick starts campaign for NPF
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 15, 2012:
With the objective of ensuring victory for all the 12 NPF candidates contesting in the Manipur Assembly elections, the United Naga Council has kick-started a public awareness campaign.
Talking to The Sangai Express, one UNC functionary said that awareness campaigns were carried out in interior hill areas inhabited by Nagas so as to enable people understand the aspirations and objectives of the UNC.
On account of the striking similarities between the ideology and principle of the UNC and NPF, the UNC decided to support the latter in the ensuing Assembly elections.
The NPF has fielded its candidates in three Assembly segments of Tamenglong district, three Assembly segments of Senapati, three Assembly segments of Ukhrul, two Assembly segments of Chandel and one Assembly segment of Churachandpur.
Saying that Naga people living in interior areas do not have clear understanding about why the UNC is supporting the NPF, the UNC functionary stated that the public awareness campaign is aimed at enabling the people to realise how they have been subjugated and how their aspirations have been kept marginalised.
He further informed that the awareness campaign has been going on in all the 12 Assembly segments where the NPF has put up its candidates.
As a part of the campaign, awareness programmes were organised in areas inhabited by Nagas within Bishnupur district, he added.