Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 11:
Opposition leader in the Imphal Municipal Council Ch Joykumar has submitted his resignation letter to resign from his present post today.
Elected from Ward No.7 as a councillor, Joykumar assumed the office of the Opposition leader since August 2006.
Announcing his intension of resigning from the post while talking to mediapersons at his office chamber today afternoon, Joykumar cited pressures from various organisations as the main reason for this stand.
He further said out of the total 27 Councillors in the Imphal Municipal Council, 19 belong to the ruling and remaining 8 are Opposition.
The main responsibility of the Opposition to analyse the merits and demerits of the activities taken up by the ruling and to discuss the matter.
So whatever measures and decision taken up by the Council are that of the ruling and not of the opposition.
In such a situation, giving undue pressures on the Opposition leader is not wrong, he said, while reiterating that he has decided to resign from being the leader of the Opposition because of such undue pressures.