IMPHAL, December 30: It could be hard to speculate pre-poll analysis of the ensuing 10th Manipur legislative assembly election which is scheduled for January 28, 2012.
According to an independent analysis made by IFP, almost all the sitting MLAs of the ruling Congress party are expected to contest the election on Congress tickets, however what is unfortunate for the party is that in many constituencies, former workers of the party are also aspiring to contest the election on a Congress tickets.
This has resulted in a major concern for the MPCC and its top leaders over how to choose party candidates and provide tickets.
Amidst such a situation, many sitting MLAs who had won the lst state Assembly election with non-Congress tickets are also queuing up to join the Congress, with even some sitting MLAs already tendering their resignations to their respective party leaders.
In the recent political development within the Opposition parties of the state even after the formation of pre-poll alliance, the Manipur Peoples Party, which has been playing a major role of the Opposition in the state Assembly have seen the resignation of two of its sitting MLAs very recently to join other parties.
A vivid example is the joining of sitting Andro MLA Th Shyamkumar, former deputy Speaker of the 9th Manipur legislative assembly to the state unit of the Trinamool Congress today.
Shyamakumar has also officially announced today to contest the upcoming election through a Trinamool Congress ticket.
In the presence of his active workers at his official quarter in Imphal this afternoon, Shyamkumar announced that he had tendered his resignation from primary membership of the MPP on December 28, 2011.
Another example is the case of sitting Naoriya Pakhanglakpa assembly constituency MLA, RK Anand who also tendered his resignation from the MPP.
In the meantime, the Communist Party of India, Manipur state council while announcing its first phase list of candidates for the ensuing election had excluded its sitting Wabagai a/c MLA U Deven.
The party announced that U Deven had been expelled from the party on October 6, 2011 due to his anti-party activities and misuse of his MLA local area development fund.
In yet another political development, the newly formed Opposition Alliance convened a meeting today to chalk out strategies to deliver names of candidates in the assembly segments where the Alliance expects to contest in the ensuing election.
It has been very clear that the formation of pre-poll alliances by different political parties of the state including the NCP, MPP, BJP, JDS and Trinamool Congress was primarily done with the main objective to defeat the ruling Congress party which had achieved absolute majority in the 9th Manipur legislative assembly. It could also mean that the non-Congress parties in the state believe that it would be hard for Non Congress parties to single-handedly defeat the ruling party.