Demanding they speak out stand on FA in Parliament...CSOs storm two MPs' residences
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 03 2018: A large number of volunteers of the Joint Committee of AMUCO, CCSK and UCM today stormed the residence of two MPs asking them to give a vivid account of the collective will of the people of Manipur regarding the State's integrity and the sanctity of its territorial boundary in the Parliament.

With women members in the forefront, the joint committee first stormed the residence of Rajya Sabha MP and BJP Manipur Pradesh president K Bhabananda at Wahengbam Leikai this afternoon.

Even as police made all attempts to prevent the joint committee members from entering the residential compound of the MP, some women managed to breach the police barricade and stormed into the MP's residence, raising different slogans all the while.

They shouted slogans like, "Speak clearly on the Framework Agreement in the Parliament", "People do not support incompetent MPs", "Clinging to one's seat of power by selling off one's home State is rather shameful", "MPs who do not understand people's pulse must resign" etc.

Woman activist M Ramani asked as to why the MPs elected from the State remain mute and silent when the State is passing through such a critical phase.

Even as the joint committee volunteers who had reached the MP's courtyard tried to enter the house to submit a memorandum to Bhabananda, the house was found locked from inside.

One security personnel came out and said through the locked collapsible grill that the MP was not at home.

It is said that K Bhabananda is currently at Delhi.

The aggrieved protesters went back only after one senior police officer of Imphal West District took the memorandum to the BJP office and came back with an acknowledgement of receiving the memorandum.

Then, the protesters marched to the Joypur Khul, Khumbong residence of Lok Sabha MP Dr T Meinya.

As Dr Meinya too is currently at Delhi, one of his close aides received the memorandum.

A copy of the same memorandum/ultimatum was also given to the MPCC president.

The memorandum submitted by the Joint Committee of AMUCO, CCSK and UCM said that the MPs elected from the State should give a vivid account of the people's collective will and position with regard to the Framework Agreement and the political dialogue going on between Gol and NSCN-IM.

The MPs, leaving aside all political considerations, must elicit a definite reply from the Union Home Minister on the final solution to.the protracted politieal dialogue, the Joint Committee urged through the memorandum.

They (the MPs) must also make it clear in the Parliament that any sectarian solution or ethnic based political or administrative arrangement would not be tolerated.

If the MPs cannot fulfil what have been demanded from them, the Joint Committee will proclaim that they do not work in accordance with the people's will and they should step down from their respective posts, said the memorandum.

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