Border fencing row: MPP hits back, ridicules all-party delegation's stand
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 21, 2013:
Reacting to the leaders of all-party delegation on the Indo-Myanmar border issue, Vice-President of Manipur People's Party (MPP) N Ojit has categorically stated that the act of those political leaders following after the Congress Party is akin to donkeys barking in place of dogs.
Speaking to media persons at the party's head-office near Mapal Kangjeibung here today, Ojit further said that the Congress Government has done the border fencing and so it is their responsibility to dismantle the fence.
The MPP is well aware of the border issue.
The party has decided to remain aloof from all-party delegation to meet the Prime Minister and Home Minister in New Delhi because of foul play of the Congress Government.
It is very ironical of those non-Congress leaders praising the Congress Government just after returning from New Delhi.
Those leaders have been trapped by the Congress Party, the Vice-President alleged.
President of MPP N Sovakiran, who was also present during the press conference, mockingly remarked the recent visit of all-party delegation as "operation successful, but patient dies".
He said that the State's territorial integrity is still at stake even if those political leaders claimed their Delhi visit as successful.
The then Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri apparently died from shock at the loss of India's land to Pakistan after the Tashkent Declaration in 1966.Maharaja Boddhachandra also passed away after getting disheartened by the merger of Manipur to India.
However, the present leaders of Manipur seem to be jubilant at the loss of land to Myanmar, the President averred.
The Government should stop fooling the people by terming the border fencing as security fencing.
The Congress Party should be responsible in dismantling the border fence set up by its Government, Sovakiran reiterated.