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Th Chaoba appointed State BJP President ; 'Fight corruption' slogan raised
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, December 17 2012: Former Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, Thounoujam Chaoba Singh has become the new president of Manipur unit BJP heralding a new strategy for the saffron party to fight the 2014 Lok Sabha polls under his political leadership.

"We will launch a strategic programme to fight corruption and to gear up for the forthcoming 2014 polls," the veteran politician popularly known as Utlou Chaoba said straight after he was appointed the party president unopposed today afternoon.

Chaoba (75) , who faced life threat from a rebel group during his two-year stint as the State unit BJP president, from 2004 to 2006, before joining the regional Manipur People's Party (MPP), acknowledged the party workers for elevating him to the post.

Stating that the three basic needs of the hour �road, water and powerhave been neglected by the Government due to the deeprooted corruption, Chaoba said the challenge ahead is corruption.

If corruption continues as it is now, then there is no that Manipur will see the light of development, Chaoba, who won six times in a row from 1972 to 1995 from Utlou constituency in Bishnupur district and held even the post of Deputy Chief Minister, said.

Th Chaoba seen along with Chandra Shekhar Rao

"The excesses committed by the State security forces is nothing but a result of high level corruption in the Police Department particularly in the recruitment process," he said.

Like the Teachers' Eligibility Test (Tet) , a new recruitment system taken up to appoint qualified candidates and to fight corruption in the Education sector, the Government should adopt similar systems in recruitment process in all other departments, Chaoba said.

"The Congress Government is encouraging corruption and we have to fight it sparing no efforts and by taking suggestions from our Central party leaders and experts for which a public awareness programme would be launched," he said.

The Congress, which is dying day by day in various big States of the Nation is now concentrating on small States like Manipur and others in the North East, Chaoba said and added that in the 2014 parliamentary polls they (Congress) would not be able to win in these States as people have started realising their real agenda.

"We will work hard to capture both seats, the Inner and Outer constituencies in Manipur in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls," he said.

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