MPP protests Art 371A plan
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 08 2018: MPP today staged a protest demonstration at their Mapal Kangjeibung Maning office against the Government of India's plan to extend Article 371A to Manipur.

Speaking to media persons by the sideline of the protest demonstration, MPP president O Jugindro said that Indian National Congress (INC) and BJP would be held accountable if the Framework Agreement and any solution worked out between Government of India and NSCN-IM affects the territorial integrity and administration of Manipur.

If Article 371A is extended to Naga inhabited areas of the neighbouring States of Nagaland, it would be seen as an act of inciting violence among different ethnic groups of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, Jugindro said.

Alleging that both BJP and Congress work only in the interest of the people of mainland India while conspiring to wipe out all the minority communities of the North East region, the MPP president said that the Congress party held a general session on April 29 and 30, 1949 and resolved to merge Manipur with the Indian Union.

At the insistence of Congress party, Manipur was merged into the Indian Union and the Constitutional monarchy (Manipur) was reduced to an ignominious Part C State of India.

Rejecting Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju's statement that there is no border dispute between India and Myanmar, Jugindro said that the Government of India's border survey team which visited declined the proposal to make a spot assessment of primary BP 81 even though they inspected subsidiary BP 81 together with representatives of different political parties recently.

If the Government of India still refuses to acknowledge the border row, MPP would be compelled to launch different modes of civil' movement to restore Manipur's territorial boundary which was there before its merger with the Indian Union, Jugindro said.

Alleging that both the Central Government and the State Government have been protecting Prof AP Pandey rather than resolving the protracted MU crisis, he demanded immediate dismissal of Prof Pandey in order to save academic career of thousands of students.

MPP would extend unstinted support to all kinds of agitation taken up by the MU community for justice.

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