MPP names new party president
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 17 2017:
Following expulsion of MPP president N Sovakiran, vice-president Oinam Jugindro has been appointed as the party's 15th president.
MPP central committee, which is the decision making body of the party held a meeting yesterday and resolved to remove Sovakiran from the post of party president and also to expel him from the party.
The central committee unanimously elected vice-president O Jugindro as the new president.
Newly elected president O Jugindro told The Sangai Express that a meeting of the party's working committee was held after which N Sovakiran was given 15 days' time before a meeting of the central committee was convened.
Even as many central committee members started arriving for the scheduled meeting, Sovakiran issued a notice without giving any reason saying that the meeting had been put off.
Notwithstanding the notice, Sovakiran was called out from the president's room and the meeting was held as scheduled.
As agreed at the meeting, Sovakiran was removed from the post of party president and he was expelled from the party after the meeting, said the new president.
Sovakiran was expelled from the party for his failure to organise and strengthen the party.
He misused party fund during the 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly election apart from indulging in many anti-party and anti-social activities.
Altogether five MPP candidates including N Sovakiran contested the last State Assembly election and the total votes they secured was just 531.Despite being party president Sovakiran got just 84 votes.
Strangely seven members of Sovakiran including himself and his wife did not cast their votes in the State Assembly election.
While the four other candidates were given Rs 1.25 lakh to Rs 3 lakh, Sovakiran kept around Rs 50 lakh for himself, Jugindro said.
He said that he would start the party's organisational works in order to revive the party's symbol which has been seized by the Election Commission of India (ECI) .
He went to claim that there are still many people who love MPP in both the hills and valley of Manipur.
Recalling that MPP formed Government three times in the past, the new president said that he would mobilise all the party lovers once again.