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Congress doesn't want to end economic blockade in Manipur, says Rajnath Singh

| | Feb 20, 2017, at 03:11 am
Guwahati, Feb 19 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday alledged that the Congress doesn't want to end the ongoing economic blockade in Manipur, which he termed as a conspiracy contrived by the Okram Ibobi Singh led state government.

While releasing the Manipur BJP Vision document in Imphal, ahead of the assembly polls in the north eastern Indian state, which is to be held on Mar 4 and 8 in two phases, Rajnath Singh said that the economic blockade in Manipur was the result of a conspiracy contrived by the Congress led state government to divert attention from their failures.

The Union Home Minister said that the Ibobi led state government didn't want to end the over-three-months-long economic blockade.

"It is a political conspiracy made by the Congress led state government, in which people of Manipur suffered huge problems since past couple of months. I don't know why despite the Centre extended all supports, the blockade still there," Rajnath Singh said.

"I had already asked the Manipur government to sit for a tripartite talks with United Naga Council (UNC) and Centre to solve the months long problem, but Congress didn't want to solve the problem. The Centre had sent sufficient security forces to the state to handle the trouble torn situation. But the state government is not use those forces," the Union Home minister said.

The Union Home minister further said that the law and order is a subject of the state.

The poll bound state faces several problems following the economic blockade imposed by the UNC.

UNC had protested against the creation of seven new districts by the incumbent state government.

Rajnath Singh also assured Manipur that the NDA government at the Centre will not harm Manipur’s territorial integrity at any cost.

“Our government and BJP will never do anything that would affect territorial integrity of Manipur at any cost,” Singh said.

The Union minister who visited Manipur on a day long visit to campaign for the party, also made similar assurances while addressing two election rallies in Bishnupur district and Imphal city.

“Anywhere in the framework agreement (signed between the Centre and NSCN-IM) the name of Manipur exists. In any eventuality Manipur’s territorial integrity will not be compromised. There should not be any confusion about this,” the Home minister said.


(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
 

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