Parties peeved at ruling Congress party silence
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 03 2013:
Silence of the ruling Congress party on the collective decision to send an all-party delegation to New Delhi to call on and apprise the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister about the Chandel outrage has left all other political parties political parties literally fuming.
BJP State unit held a meeting of its core committee today.
Apart from discussing the issue, the meeting decried the Government's attitude.
In the backdrop of the subsequent developments following the Chandel outrage, a meeting of all political parties was held on December 25 with the Chief Minister in the chair.
The meeting agreed to send an all-party delegation to New Delhi and apprise the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister about the prevailing situation in Manipur.
Even though it is almost 10 days since the meeting was held, the ruling Congress party has not made any communication about the collective decision to visit New Delhi.
Taking strong exception to the Congress party's silence, a joint meeting of seven opposition parties was held today in the office of JD(U) at Babupara.
Representatives of the opposition parties who attended the meeting openly showed their anger against the Congress Government.
The meeting attended by representatives of JD(U), MPP, JD(S), CPI, CPI(M), BJP and Trinamool Congress discussed about the Chandel outrage as well as the subsequent developments.
One representative who attended the meeting said that the Government silence on the decision of the all-party meeting was a deliberate attempt on the part of Congress party to sideline the prevailing issue.
It would not be right to further delay the trip to New Delhi for it would be against the interest of people.
The question of pulling up or letting off NSCN-IM's Livingstone is the Government's responsibility.
Yet, opposition parties and the people have already asked the concerned authorities to book Livingstone.
As such, it is imperative to inform the matter to the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister without any further delay.
In case, the ruling party does not communicate a definite date for visiting New Delhi within the next couple of days, the opposition parties would visit New Delhi and call on the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister on their own in the interest of people, informed the representative.