Imphal, February 08 2009: Training his guns on FCS Minister Y Erabot yet again for the alleged failure to make PDS items including rice and kerosene available to the people to Ukhrul district, Phungyar AC MLA Wungnaoshang Keishing has demanded that the Chief Secretary should take up the matter with the Union Home Minister and the Union Minister for Consumers Affair Food and Public Distribution to rope in the service of the CBI to probe the matter.

Talking to the media at his Babupara quarters today, the MLA questioned why the FCS Minister is against the report that 6635 quintals of PDS rice meant for the people of the three AC segments of Ukhrul district has gone missing.

The MLA further alleged that the report that 1447 quintals out of the earmarked 3476 quintals of rice for Phungyar AC was released last year is false and baseless.

The fact will be known by quizzing the Government nominated agents, said the MLA and added that it would be a gross mistake on the part of Erabot to go by the fudged report submitted by the district administration without conducting any spot inspection.

Striking a tough pose, the MLA said that the truth can be verified after a spot visit along with Ukhrul district officials of the FCI, FCS, agents, nominees, public representatives and the guilty booked under the rule of law.

If any field visit is conducted or the public of Phungyar AC are questioned, then it will come to light that the people have not received even a grain of rice under the PDS, claimed the MLA.

At the most PDS rice is distributed only twice or thrice in a year, alleged the MLA and said that the FCS Minister may know where the kerosene quota earmarked for the people have disappeared.

Reacting to the charges of Erabot that he has been elected to disfigure the boundary of Manipur, Wungnaoshang said that it is Erabot who is issuing statements to compromise with the territory of Manipur.

Keishing further said that he along with MLAs Morung Makunga and K Raina met the Union Home Minister and submitted a memorandum to expedite the Indo-Naga peace talk and added that the Home Minister assured them that the ceasefire will be effective in all Naga inhabited areas.

The Home Minister's advice was for all to eschew violence and to stop the internecine bloodshed amongst the Naga people, he added.

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