IDF points to administrative vacuum in hills for present chaos
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
New Delhi, December 29 2012:
Indigenous Democratic Front (IDF) has said that the administrative vacuum in the hill areas of Manipur has led to the present situation in Manipur.
IDF leaders who are now camping in New Delhi seeking appointments with the President of India and the Union Home minister, said they will apprise the prevailing situation of Manipur to the central leaders.
"There has been a complete administrative vacuum especially in the districts as there are no local self governments in these districts," said the IDF leaders while talking to Newmai News Network this evening.
They said had there been effective local self governments in the hill districts, the incident like that of the December 18 incident of Chandel would not have occurred.
IDF while strongly condemning the Chandel and Napet Palli incidents, said, "Crime against women is condemnable anywhere whether at Chandel or at Napet Palli," said the IDF leaders.
The IDF leaders then rued that after two years of the having had held elections to the Manipur Autonomous District Council (ADC) the state government could not even make it functional till today.
According to IDF leaders, the front is an 'apolitical' organisation with a sole aim to evolve a system of local self government.
They claimed that IDF has been fighting for the decentralisation and devolution of power in Manipur since its inception in the year 2008 .