PM Narendra Modi to address key issues of Manipur
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, December 02, 2014: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the state on Sunday promised the Manipur BJP unit to sort out all major issues confronting the state and to implement its demands, party leaders said on Monday.

Leaders of BJP Manipur Pradesh including its president Th Chaoba called on the Prime Minister yesterday at the party office and also submitted him a memorandum after he attended the closing function of the annual Sangai Festival here.

Modi was urged in the memorandum to take steps to improve the Imphal-Jiribam road on war footing, to set up a Highway Protection Force to guard all the National Highways connecting Manipur and to establish the proposed Sports University for the state at an uncontroversial site, Manipur BJP general secretary M Ashinikumar said.

Flanked by party's general secretary for Media Afffairs L Basanta Sharma, Ashinikumar said the Prime Minister was also urged to select Manipur to establish the Film Institute for the Northeast proposed by his Government, to set up an academy to preserve and promote the culture of the state at the global level, to develop the Imphal-Mandalay road at the earliest and to look into the Loktak development work undertaken by Loktak Development Authority (LDA).

He said that the memorandum further demanded Modi to introduce a "Sangai project" in line with Tiger Project and Rhinoceros Project to save the endangered brow-antlered deer of Manipur, apart from preserving the Keibul Lamjao Park as a world heritage site.

"Modi assured the state BJP leaders to implement all the demands during the meeting," he said.

The BJP leader said 6000 people took enrolment forms to register themselves in the party yesterday after Modi left Imphal.

Basanta Sharma appreciated the people for showing hospitality to Modi during his visit, which he described as a 'historic trip' to Manipur after he took office.

Sharma said Prime Minister Modi is insightful about the Northeast region and its people and added that he hoped Modi would realise all the demands raised in the memorandum submitted to him by the party during the visit.

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