Source: The Imphal Free Press
Imphal, January 03:
Khumanthem Debabarta alias Pipi, 40, of Thangmeiband Kabrabam Leikai, the MSCP spokesman who was shot and injured by unknown assailants on December 21 last, has said he still has no idea who was behind the assassination attempt.
Debabarta who is expected to be the MSCP candidate for Thangmeiband constituency in the ensuing 8th Assembly election, told a press conference at Hotel Anand that in the 14 days since the incident no organization or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack on him, and he has not received any threats.
Because of this reason and he being a prospective candidate, there were suspicions that the motive behind the attack was a political one, he said.
He recalled that on November 15 last year, a joint meeting of the representatives of AMSU, ANSAM and the KSO had been held and as per his proposal in the meeting a joint investigation of the food and civil supplies department was done and later a vigilance care has been registered as per the finding of large scale corruption.
He said that soon after this some unknown persons has made telephone threat to kill him.