Surrender of UPPK Cadres; Peace Pacts With NSCN Groups Detailed
Shinde holds fort on peace deals in NE
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 15, 2013: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today said that four United Peoples' Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) cadres surrendered before Assam Rifles (AR) at Sunrise Ground in Moreh area of Chandel District on April 17. The Home Minister said in his opening statement at the monthly press conference of Ministry of Home Affairs at New Delhi today.

Shinde also said that validity of the ceasefires between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) and Government of India and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khole � Kitovi) were extended for a further period of one year with effect from April 28. Meanwhile, replying to various questions including one on proposed handing over the operational command of ITBP to the Army's Leh-based 14 Corps which oversees the country's frontier with China and Pakistan in Ladakh division of Jammu and Kashmir, Shinde said that the plans of the Army for controlling Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which guards the frontier with China , was rejected by him and said that there will be no change in the command.

"ITBP home department ke paas hee rahegi (ITBP will stay with the Home Ministry only),' was the reply of the Home Minister during a press conference.

In the wake of recent incursion along the Sino-Indian border in this division, the Army had pushed for taking over control of ITBP for "cohesion, coordination and synergy' to counter the Chinese Army's "offensives' acts.

Reasoning out for having an operational command, the Army was of the view that by doing so, ITBP could be made more productive operationally along the 826 Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The Home Ministry had, during a recent discussion at the highest level in the government, given a blow-by-blow account about the 19km incursion by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Daulat Beg Oldi sector of Depsang buldge.

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