Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, April 06:
Once again the fracas of the Tangkhul Students body, Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) has emerged.
This time round its the same election related imbroglio and the latest development vividly indicated that all is never well in the Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) set up for quite a long time now, going by the records.
Reacting strongly to the statement in today's edition of some local newspapers here which had announced the date for the election of the body on April 21 by its Chief Election Commissioner, the TKS president has outrightly dismissed the proposed election.
TKS president Worthington, its leaders Reithingam Zingkhai and Robinson Jajo while issuing a joint statement to Newmai News Network today, has lambasted the statement of TKS chief election commissioner Ngachan Luirei who had announced that the TKS election would be held on April 21 at the TNL Assembly Hall, Ukhrul.
The joint statement of Worthington, Reithingam and Robinson Jajo clarified that Paotam Zimik is the genuine Chief Election Commissioner of the TKS while Mayopam Khamrang and Shangreipam Chithung are officials of the Commission and no one else.
Coming down heavily on some TKS leaders, the joint statement alleged that the speaker of the Tangkhul students' body RS Ngaranchui had been rendered mentally abnormal after the Lairou Ching accident he had met on Feb 27 this year.
The statement said that Ngaranchui could well have been impeached on January 10 this year for the reason that he had been dealing the TKS affairs "unsympathetic ideology" but it had been the intervention by the "higher authority" that had saved him.
The joint statement further alleged that RS Ngaranchui had been conducting "fake assemblies" of the Tangkhul students' body from "their hideouts" all these days.
"On January 11 this year the higher authority had issued a directive to sort out the TKS problems through the holding of its assembly to be convened by the speaker in consultation with the TKS president but instead, the speaker while ignoring all these, along with his associates had held an assembly on Jan 15 this year without even giving any notification and within four days time of the receipt of the directive," it alleged.